Ukraina valde Ryssland före EU - stora protester som följd, länkar i inlägg2

Ukraine's border guard service says that a leading governor and a mayor from the president's eastern base have fled to Russia.

A spokesman for the border guard service, Oleh Slobodyan, told The Associated Press that Kharkiv regional governor Mikhaylo Dobkin and Kharkiv Mayor Hennady Kernes left Ukraine across the nearby Russian border Saturday.

The terms of the deal, as reported by a Ukrainian newspaper, were quickly and loudly rejected by the masses occupying Kiev’s Independence Square. A radical wing of the opposition, the Right Sector, which sparked Thursday’s violence by attacking police, said they did not trust Yanukovich and planned to continue the fight until the government steps down, according to Interfax.

The deal, as announced on Yanukovich’s website, would “initiate” early elections, return to the 2004 version of Ukraine’s constitution, and form a government of “national trust.”

The announcement did not say when elections would be, but sources told Ukrainska Pravda the deal would revert to the 2004 constitution within 48 hours, form a coalition government within 10 days, and hold elections in December, just a couple months before they were originally scheduled.

Around Kiev and western parts of the country, "wanted" posters were on display of men believed to be snipers who killed dozens of protesters earlier this week in the capital. Lawmakers talked of the trial and imprisonment of officials deemed responsible for the killing of civilians — including Yanukovych, who was removed from office Saturday even as he vowed "not to resign."

"We must not let criminals escape the country," said Yuri Mehalchshyn, a lawmaker with the ultra-nationalist Svoboda Party. "We need to make sure no one escapes from justice."

What Brussels may have finally achieved is a Georgian-style scenario, where the western part of the country cries to Brussels for protection, while Russia on its side “protects” and annexes other parts of Ukraine, primarily the Crimea. The likelihood that a consensus government will emerge to keep the country united and at peace is melting away by the hour.