Viktor Yanukovych has been on the run since Friday but according to reports he could be in a number of different places around the world
By Lucy Kinder, map by Tom Shiel
4:43PM GMT 25 Feb 2014
The Telegraph
Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych is now a fugitive – missing since fleeing Kiev on Friday. But where could he be?
Ukraine
A likely option is that Mr Yanukovych is still in Ukraine. On leaving Kiev he flew 300 miles east to Kharkiv where he stayed in a state residence and recorded his video message, denouncing Ukraine's new leaders.
He then reportedly tried to flee the country on Saturday, out of his political stronghold Donetsk, on his private plane.
However border guards blocked him from taking off, as the jet reportedly lacked the required documents to fly.
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New reports suggest that Mr Yanukovych has returned to the Donetsk region and is now holed up in a three-storey bunker in the town of Volnovakha.
Crimea
Ukraine's interim interior minister Arsen Avakov said that Mr Yanukovych was known to have been in the pro-Russian Crimea at midnight on Sunday.
However, he added that Mr Yanukovych and his entourage had now driven off to an unknown destination, having shut down their communications systems.
Mr Yanukovych had apparently holed himself up in the port town of Balaclava on Sunday after attempting to fly out of Belbek airport (eight miles north of Sevastopol).
Locals say that he was turned away at the airport while Mr Avakov said he changed his mind about flying when he heard that the new head of state security service was waiting for him there.
So where next?
Rumours swirled that a yacht linked to Mr Yanukovych was spotted out to sea in the harbour of Balaclava.
The 88ft Bandido, and the 95ft Centurion, both believed to belong to Mr Yanukovych's son, have each been named as the possible vessel.
However the boats could be a smokescreen – some say Mr Yanukovich left Balaclava by car.
UAE
A taxi driver in Kiev swore three days ago that Mr Yanukovych was in the United Arab Emirates – but, despite enthusiastically championing diplomatic relations between the two nations, it is unlikely he has reached the Middle East.
Russia
Assuming Mr Yanukovych has managed to flee abroad, the most likely options would be for him to travel to Russia or other ex-Soviet republics.
Vladimir Putin has already placed the blame for the violence in Ukraine on the protesters, and strongly backed Mr Yanukovych when in government.
The duo have spoken in recent weeks to discuss the crisis but it is unclear as to whether Mr Putin would be happy offering Mr Yanukovych asylum with an arrest warrant out for him.
Mr Putin has not yet spoken publicly about Mr Yanukovych's ousting, but in a phone conversation with German chancellor Angela Merkel he agreed that the “territorial integrity” of Ukraine must be maintained, suggesting Russia may not intervene.
Georgia
If Mr Yanukovych has indeed fled by sea from Balaclava, he would have easy access to a number of countries including Georgia.
Whether they accept him, is a different matter.
Mr Yanukovych had a close friendship with Georgia's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, but new President Giorgi Margvelashvili condemned the violence in Kiev and urged for dialogue with the opposition.
Bulgaria
Bulgaria would seem another easy choice to sail to in the Black Sea. However the Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev called the ousting of Mr Yanukovych a "democratic revolution", seemingly pledging his support for the new government.
Romania
Mr Yanukovych may have more luck in Romania. President Traian Basescu said his country would be prepared to accept refugees from the crisis – although he may not mean the likes of Mr Yanukovych.
Belarus
Mr Yanukovych could take heart from the precedent set in nearby Belarus. President Aleksander Lukashenko took in former Kyrgyzstan president Kurmanbek Bakiyev after he was ousted in 2010.
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