Ukraine's previous president Viktor Yanukovych has said he acknowledges some obligation regarding the killings that prompted his topple in February 2014.
"I don't deny my obligation," he told BBC Newsnight, when gotten some information about the shooting of demonstrators in Kiev's Maidan Square.
He never requested the security powers to start shooting, he said, yet conceded he had not done what's necessary to avoid gore.
It is his first Western media meeting following the common war emitted a year ago.
"I didn't give any requests [to use firearms], that was not my power… I was against any utilization of power, not to mention the utilization of guns, I was against slaughter.
"Be that as it may, the individuals from the security powers satisfied their obligations as per existing laws. They had the privilege to utilize weapons," he said.
More than 100 dissidents passed on in the conflicts on Kiev's focal square, where enormous group had faced police for quite a long time.
A year after the carnage a few witnesses told the BBC that deadly shots had additionally been shot at the police.
In February 2014 Mr Yanukovych was whisked away by Russian uncommon powers to a place of refuge in Russia.
Crimea "catastrophe"
Inside of weeks Russian troops in unmarked disguise assumed control Ukrainian bases in Crimea. At that point in April ace Russian renegades raged government structures in the vigorously mechanical Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, activating common war.
Mr Yanukovych told the BBC that the war was a "bad dream" that had turn into a reality.
Russia's extension of Crimea was a "catastrophe", which would not have happened on his watch, he said.
"What happened there was awful. Also, we require, today, to discover an exit from this circumstance... Presently there is war. They discuss getting Crimea back. How? By war? Do we require another war?"
He denied claims that he had stolen reserves from the Ukrainian state and was concealing cash in remote ledgers.
His lavish habitation outside Kiev, tossed open to open look by nonconformists after he fled, did not have a place with him actually, he said.
Receipts enumerating a huge number of dollars spent on the complex were, he said, "political innovation" and twist. The ostriches in the living arrangement's petting zoo, he kept up, "simply happened to be there".
"Yes, there was debasement, nobody denies that. In any case, 18 months has passed, people with significant influence have all the methods available to them. Demonstrate to us, where are the financial balances of Yanukovych? They don't exist and never have done."
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