Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych Ukraine that the driver's name was Viktor Davydov (Davydov was the maiden surname of Viktor's mother), but Nestor Shufrych confirmed that the deceased was a son of the former President, Viktor Yanukovych. He was buried in a Russian military cemetery at Sevastopol in Crimea. Russian authorities refused to comment on reports of Yanukovych's death and did not respond to an Ukrainian Foreign Ministry query about it. A report about the 20 March 2015 accident that (allegedly) killed Yanukovych was removed from the Russian Ministry of Emergencies website shortly after it was posted. Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych (, ;
History of Ukraine the Ukrainian parliament on 22 February voted to remove Yanukovych from power (on the grounds that his whereabouts were unknown and he thus could not fulfil his duties), and to free Yulia Tymoshenko from prison. The same day Yanukovych supporter Volodymyr Rybak resigned as speaker of the Parliament, and was replaced by Tymoshenko loyalist Oleksandr Turchynov, who was subsequently installed as interim President. Yanukovych had fled Kiev, and subsequently gave a press conference in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. In March 2014, the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation resulted in Crimea being annexed by Russia. Though official results