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: An anti-government protestor waits at the entrance of Independence square in Kiev on February 23, 2014. A new era opened in Ukraine on February 23 as parliament gave itself three days to form a new government after impeaching a defiant president Viktor Yanukovych and calling early elections following a week of carnage. Yanukovych's whereabouts remained a mystery amid claims he tried and failed to escape the country and was hiding out in the east, his historic power base, where localised, minor clashes erupted overnight. AFP PHOTO / BULENT KILIC
Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has fled the presidential palace and the nation’s capital, taking refuge in his hometown of Donetsk. That city is a 45-minute drive from the Russian border.
