
Ukraine's Interior Ministry on Monday declared ousted President Viktor Yanukovych a fugitive and said it was opening a criminal case into the "mass murder" of civilians stemming from violent clashes in the capital last week that left dozens dead.
The Interior Ministry's acting head,
Arsen Avakov,
wrote on his Facebook page that Mr. Yanukovych is believed to be in Crimea, a southern
region dominated by ethnic Russians that serves as home to Russia's
Black Sea naval fleet.
"As of this morning, a criminal case has
been opened based on the mass murder of civilians. Yanukovych and some
other officials have been put on the wanted persons list," Mr. Avakov
wrote.
He said that it is believed that
Mr. Yanukovych left his native Donetsk late Saturday and arrived in
Crimea on Sunday, where he stayed in a privately run sanitarium,
avoiding state-run facilities and his presidential dacha in the region.
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