“Is it true that you spoke to Yanukovych’s wife?” – the journalist clarified.
“Her grandchildren went to kindergarten, I was jumping with Santa Claus there. So what? It was a couple of years, maybe. About three, maybe. Children’s matinee – school-kindergarten. And everyone was trembling like that. I went out – I talked to her, pulled her out, she danced with me, as it were. Well, that’s normal. We are all people,” he said. “I don’t see something like that in this. Yes, I talked.”
According to Zhdanov, he often saw Yanukovych’s wife, as she came to the Donetsk National Academic Ukrainian Musical and Drama Theater, in which he served at that time.
When asked if he knows where she is now, the actor answered in the negative.
He was born in Kiselevka, Kherson region. He studied at the Kherson College of Culture. Since 1988, the actor began working at the Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Kulish. Now he serves on stage at the National Academic Drama Theater named after Ivan Franko in Kyiv. The actor played about 40 roles in the theater and more than 30 in films.
Context
The divorce of Lyudmila and Viktor Yanukovych was not officially reported, but, according to media reports, the ex-president lives in the Russian Federation with his common-law wife Lyubov Polezhaythey allegedly had a son.
According to Radio Liberty, Lyudmila Yanukovych lives in Crimea, temporarily occupied by the aggressor country of the Russian Federation – she settled in Greater Yalta on an estate of 1.2 hectares, with its own pebble beach. The house where Yanukovych's ex-wife lives is called the “Tea House”. She owns a chain of luxury grocery supermarkets.
Yanukovych has been the president of Ukraine since February 25, 2010. February 22, 2014 after three months of protests on the Maidan The Verkhovna Rada recognized him as having withdrawn from his duties, after which new presidential elections were announced. In February 2014, Yanukovych left Ukraine, now lives in Russia.
Several criminal proceedings have been opened against Yanukovych in Ukraine. He is accused of mass murder of citizens, seizure of state property, seizure of power by unconstitutional means, and actions aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order. Regarding him the procedure for conviction in absentia is applied.
