Following his departure, the security cameras show his staff packing valuables. At 16:43, the first of at least six removal vans arrived. The packing and removal took three days and it wasn’t until the early hours of February 22 that it was completed.
Supervising the packing was a lady identified as Lyubov Polezhay. According to information on her Facebook page, she was from the town of Yenakiyevo, just like Yanukovych. According to other sources, she had a child at Kyiv’s Pechersk International School, and was a hairdresser by profession and the sister of Yanukovych’s personal chef.
During the day, as the president was negotiating, the removal of his valuables at his Mezhyhirya residence intensified under the protection of armed guards. At 14:22 two more removal vans arrived. The removers packed the vans at great speed and left, and followed by two more vans. Besides paintings and icons, scores of rifles and shotguns were loaded on the vans. The removers continued to work into the night.
The president returned to his residence at 20:55.
At 21:24, Yanukovych emerged briefly to issue orders to the removers.
At 04.00, the packing of Yanukovych’s valuables ended. As the last of the removal vans drove out of the estate, Yanukovych, the unidentified dark-haired female companion, his staff and twenty-one bodyguards boarded two helicopters. They flew to Kharkiv to stay in a secret government residence called Obukhiv.
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