China News Service, May 20. According to CNN, on the 19th local time, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine issued a statement on social media, saying that a court in Kyiv approved the arrest of former Ukrainian President Yanukovych. .
Data map: Former Ukrainian President Yanukovych.
The court charged Yanukovych with allegedly organizing the illegal smuggling of people across the Ukrainian border, according to reports.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said in a statement that on February 23, 2014, with the aid of three Russian armed forces helicopters, it illegally crossed the border with state security personnel and Russian personnel on the outskirts of Urzuf in the Donetsk region, and Send at least 20 people to Anapa, Russia.
It is unclear where the Yanukovychs are, the report said.
The Ukrainian prosecutor's office said on the 19th that he had fled to the Russian city of Anapa.
In March, the Ukrainian state news agency reported that Yanukovych was in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.
Yanukovych became president of Ukraine in 2010 for a five-year term.
In early 2014, there was a political crisis in Ukraine, and Yanukovych subsequently left Ukraine.