Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych plans to return to Ukraine and assume his old post, the politician’s legal representative told Ukrainian news agency Glavkom on Tuesday.
Yanukovych was toppled in early 2014 after months of protests against his pro-Russian government in Kiev’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti square. He fled to Russia and there have been no sightings of him in the country since. An arrest warrant was issued by the new Ukranian government in the aftermath of the uprising linking him, and other officials, to the “mass murder of peaceful citizens”.
Now the former president reportedly plans to return to his country of …read more
Source: Newsweek
