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Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych [b] (born 9 July 1950) is a former Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. [4] He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010.
On 2 April 2014, Yanukovych gave an interview to Russian and foreign media: [12] Immediately after the signing of the agreement, I began to fulfill the obligations that the government assumed. As the President of Ukraine, I instructed the police to retreat from the Maidan without delay. The radical faction responded with shooting...
On the day that Zelensky outlined the allegations of the coup plot, Ukraine's sovereign dollar bonds fell to their lowest level in over a year, and the cost of insuring Ukrainian debt soared. [6] In February 2022, Russia launched an invasion of Ukraine, attempting to take Kyiv and decapitate the Ukrainian state.
He served as Minister of Emergency Services under disgraced President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled Ukraine after a mass uprising in 2014 that triggered Russia's annexation of Crimea.
The Party of Regions endorsed Viktor Yanukovych as their candidate for the 2010 presidential election. [60] The party intended to create a new coalition in the Verkhovna Rada and form a new government if Yanukovych won the 2010 presidential elections. [61] Yanukovych was elected President of Ukraine on 7 February 2010.
Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula that year in retaliation after the country’s Moscow-friendly president, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven from power by the midwinter mass protests seen ...
This effect was most marked in eastern Ukraine and especially in Yanukovych's stronghold of Donetsk Oblast, where a turnout of 98.5% was reportedly claimed—more than 40% up from the first round. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In some districts, turnout was recorded to be more than 100%, with one district reported by observers to have recorded a 127% turnout.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) -- Ukraine's ousted president, Viktor Yanukovych, said Wednesday that he was "wrong" to invite Russian troops into Crimea, and vowed to try to persuade Russia to return ...