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A photo taken on February 22, 2014 shows a sign reading "the President of Ukraine" on Kiev's Presidential office. Ukraine's embattled President Viktor Yanukovych has left Kiev, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said on February 22, amid reports that the president has fled the country altogether following a week of deadly violence. "He has left the capital," Klitschko told parliament, also calling for early presidential elections before May 25. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSK
A photo taken on February 22, 2014 shows Kiev's Presidential office. Ukraine's embattled President Viktor Yanukovych has left Kiev, opposition leader Vitali Klitschko said on February 22, amid reports that the president has fled the country altogether following a week of deadly violence. "He has left the capital," Klitschko told parliament, also calling for early presidential elections before May 25. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
Newly-appointed Speaker of the Parliament Oleksandr Turchynov speaks during a session in Kiev on February 22, 2014. A member of Ukraine's parliament said on February 22 that President Viktor Yanukovych has promised to submit his resignation in response to violence that left nearly 100 dead in anti-government unrest. Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) opposition party lawmaker Mykola Katerynchuk told reporters that Ukraine's embattled leader said he would resign in a conversation with protest leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk. AFP PHOTO/ YURY KIRNICHNY
A handout tv grab provided by the Presidential Press Service shows Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaking to the local TV in Kharkiv on February 22, 2014. Yanukovych said on February 22 he would not sign any of the new laws passed by parliament, which included a measure to release the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. "The decisions they are taking today are illegitimate. They must hear this from me -- I do not intend to sign anything," Yanukovych told a local television station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. AFP PHOTO / HO / PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
A handout tv grab provided by the Presidential Press Service shows Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych speaking to the local TV in Kharkiv on February 22, 2014. Yanukovych said on February 22 he would not sign any of the new laws passed by parliament, which included a measure to release the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. "The decisions they are taking today are illegitimate. They must hear this from me -- I do not intend to sign anything," Yanukovych told a local television station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. AFP PHOTO / HO / PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
The Head of UDAR (Punch) party Vitalii Klitschko (above) and his deputies applaud after a voting to hold early presidential elections on May 25 during a Parliament session in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on February 22 voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25, passing a resolution stating that Viktor Yanukovych had failed to properly fulfil his duties as president. The resolution said that Yanukovych "is removing himself (from power) because he is not fulfilling his obligations, and (that parliament) is setting elections for May 25." AFP PHOTO/ YURY KIRNICHNY
Valentin Nalivaychenko, head of the Ukrainian Secret Service, speaks during a session of the parliament in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on February 22 voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25, passing a resolution stating that Viktor Yanukovych had failed to properly fulfil his duties as president. The resolution said that Yanukovych "is removing himself (from power) because he is not fulfilling his obligations, and (that parliament) is setting elections for May 25." AFP PHOTO/ YURY KIRNICHNY
Anti-government forces guard the entrance of the Ukrainian parliament, which they took control of, as President Viktor Yanukovich decided not to resign, in Kiev, on Febuary 22, 2014. Earlier in the day, Ukraine's parliament voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25, passing a resolution stating that Viktor Yanukovych had failed to properly fulfil his duties as president. The resolution said that Yanukovych "is removing himself (from power) because he is not fulfilling his obligations, and (that parliament) is setting elections for May 25." AFP PHOTO / PIERO QUARANTA
People cheer in front of the parliament building in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's parliament on February 22 voted to hold early presidential elections on May 25, passing a resolution stating that Viktor Yanukovych had failed to properly fulfil his duties as president. The resolution said that Yanukovych "is removing himself (from power) because he is not fulfilling his obligations, and (that parliament) is setting elections for May 25." AFP PHOTO/ BULENT KILIC
In this image made from video released by the Regional Administration of Kharkiv and distributed by AP Video, Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, speaks in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Protesters took control of Ukraine's capital Saturday, seizing the president's office as parliament voted to remove him and hold new elections. Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not step down. After a tumultuous week that left scores dead and Ukraine's political destiny in flux, fears mounted that the country could split in two ? a Europe-leaning west and a Russian-leaning east and south. (AP Photo / Regional Administration of Kharkiv)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych attends the signing of an agreement to end the Ukrainian crisis in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leaders signed a deal Friday with the president and European mediators for early elections and a new government in hopes of ending a deadly political crisis. Russian officials immediately criticized the deal and protesters angry over police violence showed no sign of abandoning their camp in central Kiev. (AP Photo/Andrei Mosienko, Presidential Press Service, Pool)
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is pictured before the signature of an agreement with the opposition on February 21, 2014. Ukraine's leader and opposition on Friday signed a deal to end the splintered country's worst crisis since independence after three days of carnage left nearly 100 protesters dead and the heart of Kiev resembling a war zone. President Viktor Yanukovych's dramatic decision to hold early elections and form a new unity government was met with caution by the tens of thousands gathered on central Kiev's main square for a protest that began exactly three months earlier. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych looks down at his glasses before signing an agreement in Kiev on February 21, 2014 to end the splintered country's worst crisis since independence after three days of carnage left nearly 100 protesters dead and the heart of Kiev resembling a war zone. President Viktor Yanukovych's dramatic decision to hold early elections and form a new unity government was met with caution by the tens of thousands gathered on central Kiev's main square for a protest that began exactly three months earlier. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych speaks in Kiev on February 19, 2014 during an address to the nation. Yanukovych said anti-government protesters had "crossed the limits" by taking to the streets to try to oust him from power as deadly clashes raged in Kiev. "The leaders of the opposition have disregarded the principle of democracy according to which we obtain power through elections and not on the street ... they have crossed the limits by calling for people to take up arms," he said. RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/ PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE POOL/ STR" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych arrives for a meeting with veterans of the Soviet era war in Afghanistan to mark the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in Kiev on February 14, 2014. Anti-government protesters have occupied Kiev's central Independence Square for almost three months after President Viktor Yanukovych rejected a key EU trade pact in favour of closer ties with Russia. AFP PHOTO / GENYA SAVILOV
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shake hands at their meeting in Sochi, Russia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Yanukovych arrived in Sochi late Thursday to hold talks with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Andrei Mosienko, Presidential Press Service, Pool)
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets U.S. Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014. The senior U.S. diplomat has arrived in the Ukrainian capital to try to help find a resolution to the protests and political crisis that have gripped the country for more than two months. Nuland is on a two day visit to Kiev. (AP Photo / Mykhailo Markiv, Pool)
Photo shows the empty chair of the Ukrainian prime minister after a cabinet of the ministers sitting in Kiev on January 29, 2014. Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who resigned on January 28 after months of pressure from the opposition, is a loyalist bureaucrat with a nasty temper who once told his critics to "piss off". The 66- year-old former geologist has been a faithful servant to President Viktor Yanukovych and has been mercilessly mocked by the nationalist opposition for his inability to speak Ukrainian. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ALEXANDER KOSAREV
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych, left, greets EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton prior their talks in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Ukraine's parliament discussed an amnesty Wednesday for those arrested during weeks of protests in the crisis-torn country ? but some of the possible conditions attached to it would be unacceptable to the opposition. (AP Photo/Andrei Mosienko, Pool)
