Former President Viktor Yanukovych escaped in 2014 from the Zaporizhya region to the Crimea with the help of Russian special forces. This follows from the testimony of the representative of the State Guards of the Yanukovych times, which he gave at a sitting of Kyiv Pechersk district court on January 21, that held the proceedings on charges of the state treason. According to the guard, on the peninsula fugitive ex-Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and former head of the Interior Ministry Vitaly Zakharchenko waited for Viktor Yanukovych. From the Crimea Yanukovych with colleagues flew to Russia.