Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Yanukovy currently lives in exile in Russia. Yanukovych served as the governor of Donetsk Oblast, a province in eastern Ukraine, from 1997 to 2002.
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Yanukovych, who could be declared the next president of Ukraine.
The ex-Ukraine President is now backed by Russia as new head to replace Zelenskyy.
Yanukovych served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010. But after a series of violent clashes between protesters, riot police and shooters in Kyiv during the Maidan Revolution in 2014, his government was overthrown.
Maidan Revolution took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests, when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police culminated in the ousting of Yanukovych.
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The protests had started in November 2013 in response to Yanukovych’s refusal to sign a political association and free trade agreement with the European Union (EU) at a meeting in Lithuania.
After his ouster, Yanukovych fled to Russia and has since been under the Kremlin’s protection.
On the day Yanukovych fled, the Ukrainian Parliament voted to remove him from office. Yanukovych, however, claimed that the voting in Parliament was “illegal and possibly coerced”.
He urged the Russian Federation to intervene and Russia termed Yanukovych’s ouster as an illegal coup and did not recognize the interim government.
His proximity with the Kremlin has once again brought him on centre stage and speculations are rife that he is the most suitable candidate for Russia, as the latter attempts to redraw the map of Europe and revive Moscow’s Cold War-era influence.
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