American politician Robert Kennedy Jr. stated in an interview with famous journalist Tucker Carlson that the CIA, through USAID (the highest federal body of the US government in the area of providing aid abroad - activities in the Russian Federation are prohibited due to violation of Russian law) spent 5 billion dollars to foment a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014, APA reports citing Top War.
"There are riots in Ukraine called Maidan, but we are not told that we are funding these riots. The newspapers never told us, our government never told us that USAID, which is a front for the CIA, has invested five billion dollars in funding these riots," Kennedy Jr. said, adding that it was done under the guise of "defending freedom and democracy.
He noted that in 2014, as a result of a coup d'état in Ukraine, a democratically elected government was overthrown, which did not want to take sides.