Expert talks about possible military coup in Ukraine involving Avakov

15.07.2021, Moscow.

The deputy director of the Institute of CIS Countries Vladimir Zharikhin has expressed his opinion about a military coup in Ukraine which would involve former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, RIA Novosti informed on July 15.

Avakov tendered his resignation on July 13. This decision was supported by the majority of the Verkhovna Rada [Ukrainian parliament] members. The minister’s resignation was supported by 291 MPs with the required minimum of 226 votes.

According to Zharikhin, there could be a military coup in Ukraine before 2024, when the next presidential election should be held. “I don’t think they will wait until 2024. A military coup without any elections, the transition of power to some military junta, which will include Avakov [could be expected],” the expert said. According to Zharikhin, Avakov resigned to signify his departure from Zelensky’s team.

“I do not rule out, taking into account that before [Avakov’s resignation] he had a meeting with his long-time acquaintance, the US ambassador [Kristina Kvien], that the Americans are plotting to reconfigure the Ukrainian government, and Avakov left in order to further oppose the Zelensky team, to join the fight against it within another team, which the Americans are already starting to form,” the expert said.

Zharykhin does not rule out that the team will be formed “not by the electoral principle, not by creating a kind of majority in parliament.” According to the political analyst, “the Americans have decided that democracy in Ukraine is turning into an anarchy’ rather than a system managed by them, so they have decided to use the methods of the 1960s for Latin America – that is the creation of a military junta, already directly, without parliament and especially the population, to rule the country.”

The analyst pointed out that the US side had already begun to force Zelensky’s team to take steps violating the constitution. As an example, he cited the banning of TV companies, which contravened the law, as well as the persecution of the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform – For Life party Viktor Medvedchuk.

According to Zharykhin, the Americans felt that Zelensky’s team was weak in order to move away from the constitution to direct military rule. According to the expert, that is why they “are now removing the most capable people from the president’s team, including Avakov, in order to counter them and bring them to power in the future”.

Zharykhin predicted that the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytriy Razumkov might also leave Zelenskyy’s team, the preconditions for this, according to the expert, are in the deputy’s statements.

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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