The night before November 30, 2013, the then President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych held high-ranking officials in the company, and his first reaction to the power dispersal of the students on Maidan by the Berkutites was the words: "We showed strength," TCH reports.. ua This was told by a source from the close circle of the ex-president for the special project "Beyond the Maidan".

Yanukovych was then on a hunt in Sukholuchye, 70 kilometers from Kiev. Together with him were his predecessors - Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as the then People's Deputy of the Party of Regions Vadim Novinsky and several businessmen.

The next morning, Yanukovych tried to get through the then head of the presidential administration, Sergei Levochkin, but he was still on the hunt and did not pick up. Yanukovych knew about what happened on the Maidan.

"We showed our strength, and we will show it further," the source from his close circle.

A little later, Levochkin handed the president a letter of resignation and a video of students' beatings. The presidential administration has prepared a draft statement with the announcement of the resignation of Interior Minister Vitaly Zakharchenko, but Yanukovych did not announce the statement.

The Center for Information Coordination of the Party of Regions sent out instructions to the then officials and regional deputies on how to comment on the power dispersal. They advised us to say that we need to investigate the incident.

Levochkin's resignation from the post of the head of the AP was advised to be explained by the fact that he ordered the chairman of the KSCA Alexander Popov to put the New Year tree on the Maidan.

Recall, since the bloody crackdown at three o'clock in the morning in the center of Kiev has passed four years. Then the Berkutites chased the students through the streets, beaten with batons. Many of the activists took refuge in the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral. The next day, about a million Ukrainians came to the Maidan, which was the starting point for crowded protests in the center of the capital.