As ranks of riot police officers, Interior Ministry troops and even the president vanished Saturday from the capital, Ukraine slipped, with often-eerie calm after months of tumultuous protests and a week of bloody mayhem, into the hands of revolution.
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Gone along with President Viktor F. Yanukovych,
who had fled to eastern Ukraine, was any trace of a Friday peace deal
that had sought to freeze the country’s tumult by trimming the powers of
the president while allowing him to stay in office until the end of the
year.
At
the president’s mist-shrouded residential compound just outside the
capital in Mezhgorye, Sergey Belaus, a major in Ukraine’s State
Protection service, said he had handed over control of Mr. Yanukovych’s
living quarters and his tennis court to the head of a small band of
antigovernment militants at 9 a.m.
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