Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych smiles during a press conference devoted to the hundred days of his presidency in Kiev on June 4, 2010. President Viktor Yanukovych said for the first time today that Ukraine was against recognizing Georgia's rebel regions, dashing Russian hopes Kiev will support one of Moscow's most controversial policies. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY STUART WILLIAMS (FILES) A file photo taken on December 17, 2013 shows Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych winking at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a signing ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russia had little option other than to offer sanctuary to deposed Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, even if there is little love lost between him and President Vladimir Putin, analysts said. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV

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

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych during a round-table meeting with the country's opposition leaders in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Ukraine's president proposed an amnesty Friday for all those facing criminal charges in the country's wave of anti-government demonstrations, but the gesture did little to mollify opposition leaders driving the protests. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, Pool)

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych arrives for a working dinner at the begining of Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius on November 28, 2013. An EU summit designed to draw six ex-Soviet states to the West opens with its ambitions dented Thursday after Ukraine, the biggest of the six, caved into Moscow to hand Europe a mighty "Nyet". AFP PHOTO/JANEK SKARZYNSKI

Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych (R) and his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski pose prior to their talks after the inaugurating ceremony in Kiev on February 25, 2010. AFP PHOTO/ PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE POOL/ANDREY MOSIENKO

(FILES) Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych holds the presidential certificate after he took oath in the parliament in Kiev on February 25, 2010. Ukraine issued an arrest warrant on February 24, 2014 for ousted president Viktor Yanukovych over the "mass murder" of protesters and appealed for $35 billion in Western aid to pull the ex-Soviet country back from the brink of economic collapse. The dramatic announcements by ex-Soviet country's new Western-leaning ministers -- approved by parliament over a chaotic weekend that saw the pro-Russian leader flee into hiding -- came as a top EU envoy flew to Kiev to buttress its sudden tilt away from Moscow. AFP PHOTO/POOL/ANASTASIA SIROTKINA

(FILES) This picture taken on January 18, 2010 shows then Ukrainian opposition leader, and presidential election candidate Viktor Yanukovich during a press conference in his headquarters in Kiev. Anti-government protesters on February 18, 2014 Tuesday smashed their way into the party headquarters of embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, an AFP reporter at the scene said. Part of the building was on fire after several hundred protesters hurled Molotov cocktails at it following fierce clashes with the police close to the nearby building of the Ukrainian parliament. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER NEMENOV

Ukraine's Prime Minister and one of the main challengers for this fall presidential election, Viktor Yanukovych, is seen during his interview to the Associated Press in his cabinet office in Kiev, Ukraine, July 15, 2004. More than a dozen years after it became independent amid the Soviet Union's collapse, Ukraine _ sprawled between an expanding Europe and a resurgent Russia, held in check by backsliding democracy and burgeoning corruption _ stands at a crossroads as the Oct. 31 presidential election approaches. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)