UNITED NATIONS, December 27. /TASS/. The United States and European Union played a key role in fueling the protests that led to Euromaidan, and Russia does not have any doubts about this, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said.

"We have no doubts about the key role of the European Union and the United States in inciting, encouraging and leading the protests of a rowdy minority, by using far-right radicals and neo-Nazis as a lever," he said at an Arria-formula meeting devoted to the Euromaidan events.

The Russian ambassador pointed out that "Western experts and politicians are now talking more and more loudly" about the West’s involvement in the Euromaidan events.

"We are well aware of disinformation technology that was employed on Maidan. Allegedly independent media outlets and NGOs, which in fact were funded by Western intelligence agencies, instilled the hatred and fear of authorities in the masses, manipulated public opinion, distorted and even tampered with information," Nebenzya said.

The events called Euromaidan broke out in Ukraine on November 21, 2013, when the country’s government announced that the process of signing the Association Agreement with the EU had been suspended. In response, the opposition launched large-scale protests in Kiev, which spiraled into riots. The political crisis resulted in a coup in Ukraine in February 2014.