Viktor Yanukovych was shacked up with girlfriend - PHOTO

Viktor Yanukovych, who went on the lam two days before his country’s acting government issued a warrant for his arrest, had been sharing the gaudy presidential mansion in Kiev with his blond girlfriend, the Kyiv Post reported Monday.While Yanukovych was shacked up with 39-year-old Lyubov Polezhay and her 12-year-old daughter from an earlier relationship, the president’s missus was living about 350 miles east of them in the city of Donetsk.It was no secret that Yanukovych, 63, and his wife, Liudmyla, who is a year older, were living apart. While she sometimes appeared on the campaign trail, she made no attempt to play the role of Ukraine’s First Lady.“She is very negative about politics,” Yanukovych has said of his wife, according to the Kyiv Post.But Yanukovych’s relationship with Polezhay was a revelation to Ukrainians seeking to try him for siccing security forces on the protesters who forced him from power.Yanukovych is believed to be hiding out on the Black Sea peninsula of the Crimea, a Russian-speaking part of Ukraine where he continues to have political support.Polezhay’s whereabouts were unknown.Yanukovych was forced into hiding over the weekend after government snipers killed scores of protesters in the bloodiest violence in Ukraine’s post-Soviet history.The arrest warrant for Yanukovych and his flunkies, issued Monday, is for the “mass killing of civilians.” At least 82 people were killed last week in clashes in Kiev.Ukraine, a strategically important country of 46 million sitting in the shadow of Russia, is now in the hands of an interim government.“He must answer for all the crimes he has committed against Ukraine and its people,” activist Valeri Kazachenko said at Independence Square in Kiev, where the deadliest battles were fought. “Yanukovych must be tried by the court of the people right here in the square.”But Yanukovych’s chief ally is Russian strongman Vladimir Putin. And the Russians have not yet recognized the legitimacy of Ukraine’s new rulers.Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev accused them of taking power through “armed mutiny.”(nydailynews.com)ANN.Az