Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. said Washington provided at least $5 billion to fund the Maidan events in Kiev in 2014.
“There have been riots, in Ukraine they call it Maidan, they do not tell us that we finance these protests. Newspapers never tell us. Our authorities never tell us,” he said. report Hosted by Tucker Carlson.
According to him, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), short for Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), allocated this money to finance the unrest in the Ukrainian capital.
Kennedy also said that Victoria Nuland, the US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, had a hand in the change of politicians in Ukraine who did not want to side with the West.
A month before the events of Maidan, Nuland discussed possible candidates for the post of Ukrainian leaders with the US ambassador in Kiev. Kennedy said that conversation was confidential, but the tape is now available in the public domain.
The politician added that the CIA contributed to the overthrow of 83 governments of different countries from 1947 to 1997.
Kennedy in the same interview declarationThat the Americans set up biological laboratories in Ukraine as part of their biological weapons program.
Formerly USA and Ukraine started Negotiations on security guarantees for Kyiv.