VLADIVOSTOK, March 15. /TASS/. Organisers of the coup in Kiev in 2014 planned assassination of Viktor Yanukovich, the then President of Ukraine, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday.
"I invited to Kremlin heads of our intelligence services, the defence ministry, and set a task to save the life of Ukraine's president; otherwise he would have been killed," Putin said in a film called Way to Motherland, which Rossiya 1 television channel broadcasted on Sunday.
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