Ukraine's Yanukovych blocked from flying to Russia: parliament speaker

Ukraine’s border police blocked Viktor Yanukovych from flying to Russia and the embattled president is thought to be “hiding” in the country’s east, the newly elected parliament speaker said Saturday.

“He tried to take a plane to Russia but he was blocked in doing so by border police. He is currently hiding somewhere in the Donetsk region,” Oleksandr Turchyno was quoted as saying by Ukrainian news agency Interfax.