The Collected Treasures Of Viktor Yanukovych
More on the Yanukovych international arrest warrant, via Reuters:
Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovich and two members of his former government on the international wanted list at the behest of Ukraine, according to a notice on its website on Monday.
The international police organisation said Yanukovich and his former finance minister, Yuri Kolobov, were wanted in Ukraine on charges of embezzlement and financial wrongdoing. Former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov was also listed though it was not clear what the Ukrainian charges against him were.
Ukrainian authorities said Interpol's publication of a so-called red notice against 64-year-old Yanukovich and his two allies empowered any police force to hand them over to Ukraine if they were detained. Yanukovich has been living in Russia since he was toppled by street protests in February 2014.
In Moscow, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted a source familiar with the situation as saying Russia was unlikely to grant any request to extradite Yanukovich to Ukraine.
"Today, several months after Ukraine sent a request to Interpol in March 2014 with the arguments and explanations prepared by the Interior Ministry, the Prosecutor General's Office and the Security Service of Ukraine, an Interpol special commission has come to a decision," Ukraine's interior minister Arsen Avakov wrote on his Facebook page.
Based on the Ukrainian prime minister's recent gaffe to German media, in which he referred to "the Soviet invasion of Germany and Ukraine."
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference in Moscow: "Regardless of what is happening in Paris, Syria or Libya and elsewhere, we will demand from our Western partners, who have much more influence over the Ukrainian government than anyone else, that they should sort out these plans and prevent 'the party of war' in Kyiv from crashing all the fragile hopes that were created by the Minsk accords."
TASS reported that "more than 60 trucks" returned to the Russian base of Noginsk, in Rostov, from the 11th incursion into Ukrainian territory by Russian convoys that Moscow claims are carrying humanitarian aid. It has not allowed any of the shipments to be inspected by the Red Cross or Ukrainian national authorities.