MOSCOW. Feb 24 (Interfax) - State Duma International Affairs Committee Chairman Alexei Pushkov suspects that Western partners of Viktor Yanukovych will call off their guarantees.
"Yanukovych will tell the court, which will be trying him, about "the security guarantees" he received from his Western partners. And they will refute that with a smile," Pushkov wrote on Twitter early on Monday morning.
The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada passed a resolution on Saturday demanding that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych voluntary remove himself from his post and scheduled early presidential elections for May 25.
Yanukovych said on Saturday that he considered himself to be the legitimately elected President of Ukraine.
"I am not going to leave the country. I am not going to resign. I am the legitimately elected president. I was given guarantees by all the international mediators I was working with; they said they would provide security guarantees. I shall see how they play this role," Yanukovych said during an interview aired by the Rossiya 24 channel.
There is no information about Yanukovych's whereabouts.