(ANSA) – ROME, MAY 20 – The Ukrainian Attorney General has issued an arrest warrant for the former Ukrainian pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych, overthrown by the Maidan square riots in February 2014 and now a Russian citizen. Yanukovich – we read in a post by the Attorney General on Telegram, also picked up by various media – is accused of having fled to Russia in 2014 from the Donetsk region using three Russian military helicopters, on which he allegedly took 20 “smuggled” people with him. across the border, according to Ukrainian magistrates.
“On February 23, 2014 (the day after his fall, ed), Yanukovych, together with security personnel and representatives of the Russian Federation, with the help of three Russian Armed Forces helicopters, illegally crossed (the border) and transported at least 20 people across the state border from the outskirts of Urzuf in the Donetsk region to the Russian Anapa region, “near Krasnodar, the post said. Yanukovych is believed to still reside in Russia, but where it is unknown, although some reports reported by Ukrinform would give him in Minsk, Belarus. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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