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As dozens of protesters were dying on the streets of Kyiv by blunt force and bullets from police on Feb. 19-20, Ukraine's now former President Viktor Yanukovych was quietly making an escape from his palatial estate located outside the city known as Mezhyhirya, according to time-stamped security camera footage recovered from the residence and published on YouTube.
The series of closed-circuit videos show the deposed president had plenty of help planning his Kyiv exit days in advance and even oversaw the operation himself in the hours ahead of his final departure late on Feb. 21, following negotiations with opposition leaders and foreign ministers earlier in the day, at which time an exit strategy to the more than three-months-long political conflict was agreed upon.
The footage filled by cameras positioned at the estate's main residence, known as Honka, shows dozens of men and women helping to carry and wheel out of the lavish residence several paintings, vases, statues and candelabras, as well as several other items. Some videos show what appears to be a small arsenal of weapons being carried away, including at least three apparent automatic rifles fixed with scopes and more than two dozen other rifles, some in a glass case.
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Yanukovych fled his luxurious residence in the late hours of Feb. 21, making his way to Kharkiv, Donetsk and then Crimea before turning up in Rostov-on-Don. Lawmakers from opposition parties and Yanukovych's own Party of Regions in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, voted on Feb. 22 to impeach him. Yanukovych has said twice since during press conferences from the southern Russian city that he remains the legitimately elected president of Ukraine and did not flee the country
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