MOSCOW. Feb 19 (Interfax) - Ukraine should not repeat "the Yugoslavian scenario" and events in this country are occurring at the instigation of the West, which continues to pursue its geopolitical goals, the State Duma said.
"It is necessary to stop by any means the bloodshed and not permit outside intervention," Chairman of the Duma Committee for CIS and Eurasian Integration Leonid Slutsky told reporters on Wednesday.
Effectively, the West is instigating bloodshed in our fraternal country, he said. "What is happening in Ukraine is chaos, but one that is provoked by radicals and well-organized from the viewpoint of 'military operations'," the committee chief said.
The Ukrainian opposition leaders are no longer in control of the situation but it was their "enormous ambitions and reluctance to consider the compromises proposed by the authorities that led to another wave of violence, arson, casualties and already 25 deaths, including deaths among civilians, policemen and reporters," he said. All this is happening "at the instigation of the West which continues to pursue its geopolitical goals and could not care less about the fate of the whole country and its people," the politician said.
The so-called protest has long overstepped all permissible boundaries from the viewpoint of European democratic values and brought the country to the brink of a split, Slutsky said. "We must not allow the Yugoslavian scenario to happen in Ukraine," he said.
Russia, its Duma deputies are ready to provide whatever help is necessary and requested by the fraternal nation, Slutsky said. "And I feel very sorry that the Olympic truce was broken and the Ukrainian athletes, who have already been urged to withdraw from the Winter Games in Sochi, also become hostages to the extremists' actions," the Duma committee chairman added.