Russia, Belarus, UAE? Few options for Ukraine's ousted leader


  • World
  • Sunday, 23 Feb 2014

KIEV (Reuters) - Big and burly with two convictions for assault, Viktor Yanukovich is hard to miss. But after a day of high drama and intrigue, the whereabouts of the ousted Ukrainian president were a mystery.

One report had him ejected from a charter flight at Donetsk airport in his native east. An aide said he'd been in the northeastern city of Kharkiv all day, though he failed to appear at a meeting of regional governors. A taxi driver in Kiev swore he was in the United Arab Emirates.

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