Ukraine's ex-president to testify from Russia on killing of protesters

Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovich talks to the media after a video link with a Ukrainian court during the trial of former riot police force members, suspected of killing participants of the 2014 anti-government and pro-European Union mass protests, inside a building of a regional court in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, November 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer

KIEV/ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (Reuters) - Protests prompted a Ukrainian court to postpone its questioning of exiled former president Viktor Yanukovich as a witness at a trial on Friday over the killing of demonstrators, a delay that Yanukovich said was a bid to obstruct justice.

The court was due to cross-examine Yanukovich via video link over the fatal shooting by police officers of protesters during the Maidan street revolt of 2013/2014 when he was president, unrest that culminated in him fleeing to Russia.