Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will envy the fate of former Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych in case mass protests in Kiev emerge.
"We can only wait to see what the illegitimate Ukrainian authorities will do when the people come out to Maidan again. That's when the bloody clown will be bitterly jealous of Viktor Yanukovych's fate," Medvedev wrote on social media after slamming Ukrainian officials for condemning the dispersal of protests in Georgia.
Yanukovych served as Ukrainian president from 2010 until February 2014, when he was removed from office following the Revolution of Dignity, also known as the Maidan Revolution, after he declined to sign an association agreement with the EU and accepted a trade deal with Russia. In 2014, Yanukovych left Ukraine and went into exile in Russia, and in January 2019, a Ukrainian court sentenced him in absentia to 13 years in prison for high treason.
