Held the post of head of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych during a coup d'etat in Ukraine was in the Crimea, access to which was may be due to the fixation location of his motorcade by Russian special forces, Russian Federation Yanukovych had not wished, told the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin.

in Ukraine, 22 February 2014 has been a coup d'etat, as a result of which the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Yanukovych from power.

"He went to the Crimea, But when I showed a map of his movement when He called our monitoring services really started to his motorcade. Every time we recorded the place of its location. But when I showed the map, it became clear that He will soon run into an ambush, "he said in the documentary" the Crimea. The way Home ", published in the far Eastern air television channel.

Putin also told that at some point offered himself to fly for Yanukovych, but later it was decided to send a tuple, And send it in towards the shore." We gave them an indication of where to go - ashore-tuple. And put the helicopter group special forces unit in the cabin, " he said.

helicopters, according to him, had already run out of fuel, And they had to leave, But the tuple was found.

"But this was not the end of the story, because Viktor Yanukovych did not want to move to the Russian Federation, And immediately asked me to send him to the Crimea. And went to the Crimea. So a few more days, as long as all events associated with the coup unfolded, It is placed within Ukraine. But a few days when it became clear that to not agree with someone in Kiev, He asked And We took him to the site of Russia ", - said the head of the Russian Federation.

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