KIEV, Ukraine - The crisis in Ukraine took an extraordinary turn on Saturday as crowds of anti-government protesters took control of the government quarter, while lawmakers in parliament appointed their own members to top government spots on Saturday, and news broke that besieged President Viktor Yanukovych had fled the city, possibly even the country.
Opposition factions also took over the presidential estate, allowing people of Kiev their first view of the opulent life that Yanukovych had led.
It was also reported that Yanukovych had verbally agreed to resign. Several opposition members of parliament confirmed that Yanukovych had voiced to them that he had resigned. But his loyal advisor, Hanna Herman, said that he had in fact not done so.
Later in the day Yanukovych appeared in an interview purportedly filmed this afternoon in which he said defiantly that he was not resigning. He also suggested that opposition leaders’ moves in Parliament to appoint members of opposition Batkivshchyna party to leadership positions amounted to a coup d’etat. Read more...
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