I am surprised he even has a heart.
Figured it was a mechanical pump
:)
Too bad about the harassment of Yatseniuk -- no doubt the Russians
phoned in a threat.
Stefan Lemieszewski wrote:
>
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2575419/Ousted-Ukrainian-president-Yanukovych-seriously-ill-hospital-suffering-heart-attack-claim-Russian-press.html
> Daily Mail
> 7Mar2014
> Ousted Ukrainian president Yanukovych is 'gravely ill' after heart
> attack as plane carrying country's new leader is boarded by SWAT team
> after terrorist attack alert
> - Russian newspaper claims Viktor Yanukovych is in 'grave' condition
>
> - Vladimir Putin dismissed report earlier this week that Yanukovych had
> died
>
>
> - SWAT teams boarded plane carrying Ukraine's new PM following
> 'terrorist threat'
>
>
> - Speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament today said there will be
> no war between Russia and the Ukraine
>
> - She also said Crimea's parliament has the right to hold a referendum
> on the region's future status
>
> - French foreign minister has said second round of sanctions against
> Russia could follow if first do not succeed
>
> By Will Stewart In Moscow and James Rush
>
>
>
>
> [ GRAPHICS ]
> Deposed president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych is in a Moscow hospital
> after suffering a suspected heart attack, it was reported in Russia
> today.
>
>
> His condition was said to be 'grave', Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper,
> known as MK, has claimed, citing unofficial sources.
>
> Austrian authorities meanwhile have said SWAT teams boarded a plane
> carrying Ukraine's new Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk after receiving
> a threat that a terrorist attack was planned.
>
>
>
> Austria's Interior Ministry has said today the team boarded the plane
> following its scheduled landing in Vienna on Thursday night after it
> received a security warning from German flight controllers. Nothing out
> of the ordinary was found.
>
> Mr Yatsenyuk, who was making his way home after addressing European
> Union leaders in Brussels, then took his scheduled connection to Kiev.
>
>
> German flight control spokeswoman Kristina Kelek said the initial
> warning came from Belgian police and was then relayed by her office to
> Austrian authorities because the plane was already almost out of German
> airspace when it was received.
>
> She says it was a vague warning that 'there was possibly a terrorist
> attack planned'.
>
> Vladimir Putin dismissed a report earlier this week that Yanukovych had
> died from a heart attack in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
>
> On Tuesday, the Kremlin leader said his former ally was 'alive and
> healthy', and that he had met him several days earlier.
>
> However, Yanukovych has not been seen in public since giving a press
> conference in Russia one week ago.
>
> Putin also claimed the former leader would have been killed if not for
> his rescue in Sevastopol by Russian forces.
>
>
>
> Today the newspaper said: 'According to an MK source, Yanukovych may
> have had a heart attack. His condition is assessed as grave.'
>
> The name of the Moscow hospital was not given.
>
> 'So far there has been no official confirmation,' stated the newspaper.
>
>
> Yanukovych is the subject of a formal request by the authorities in Kiev
> for extradition to face an investigation for ordering his security
> forces to shoot unarmed protesters in Kiev last month. He denies the
> allegations.
>
> Russia believes Yanukovych remains the legal president of Ukraine. Putin
> agreed to give him sanctuary after he was toppled.
>
> 'The legitimate president, purely legally, is undoubtedly Yanukovych,'
> said Putin on Tuesday.
>
> =93I think he has no political future - I told him that. As for playing
> a role in his fate, we did that purely from humanitarian reasons.'
> Russia now has 30,000 troops in Ukraine's Crimea region, Ukrainian
> border guards said on Friday, nearly twice the previous figure given by
> the government in Kiev.
>
>
> Serhiy Astakhov, aide to the head of border guards service, told Reuters
> the figure was an estimate and included both troops that had arrived
> since last week and Russia's Black Sea Fleet, permanently based in the
> Crimean port of Sevastopol.
>
> Russia, whose forces occupied the isolated peninsula last week, says the
> only troops it has there are those based in Sevastopol. The Russian
> troops that have occupied positions across Crimea wear no insignia on
> their uniforms but drive vehicles with Russian military plates.
>
>
> Ukraine says thousands of extra troops have arrived and have fanned out
> across the occupied peninsula in violation of the treaty governing the
> base. Earlier this week Ukraine said there were a total of 16,000
> Russian troops in Crimea.
>
> Leading Ukranian politician Yulia Tymoshenko has today said there was a
> danger of guerrilla war in Crimea should it be incorporated into Russia
> and appealed to Germany and others for immediate economic sanctions
> against Moscow.
>
>
>
> She said a Russian takeover of the Crimean peninsula would create
> long-term dangers for the whole region.
>
>
> Speaking to Reuters after a meeting with German chancellor Angela
> Merkel, Tymoshenko said international measures against Russia had so far
> been ineffective and called for immediate action to prevent a
> 'flashpoint'.
>
> A U.S. Navy destoyer, which is heading to the Black Sea for what the
> military on Thursday described as a 'routine' deployment that was
> scheduled well before the crisis in Ukraine, was today passing through
> Istanbul's Bosporus straits.
>
>
> The Navy destroyer USS Truxtun is participating in exercises with
> Romania and Bulgaria and is expected to be in the Black Sea for several
> days.
>
> Demonstrators who have remained encamped in Kiev's central Independence
> Square to defend the revolution that ousted Yanukovich said they did not
> believe Crimea would be allowed to secede.
>
> [ . . . ]
>
>
> ------
>
>
> UKRAINE'S NEW LEADERSHIP TURNS TO THE OLIGARCHS FOR HELP
> In a surprising move, Ukraine's new leadership has reached out to
> oligarchs for help - appointing them as governors in eastern regions
> where loyalties to Moscow are strong.
>
>
> With their wealth, influence and self-interest in preventing further
> conflict, the oligarchs could be the key to calming tensions and
> maintaining Ukraine's control in areas where pro-Russian activists have
> stoked separatist tensions.
>
>
> But the decision to appoint the country's richest men as regional
> administrators has its risks. Some believe the oligarchs, who have a
> history of manipulating governments, may become too entrenched in their
> new jobs and could use their posts for personal gain.
>
>
> The unexpected move drew instant ire from Russian President Vladimir
> Putin, who called one of the oligarchs, Ukraine's third-richest man,
> Ihor Kolomoisky, a 'swindler'.
>
>
> 'They name oligarchs, billionaires as governors of eastern regions,'
> Putin said during a news conference earlier this week. 'Naturally,
> people don't accept that.'
>
>
> Under Ukrainian law, governors are appointed by the country's president
> instead of being elected.
>
>
> After President Viktor Yanukovych fled for Russia last month in the wake
> of mass protests against his government and deadly clashes with police,
> acting President Oleksandr Turchynov fired Yanukovych's appointees and
> replaced them with his own.
>
>
> Kolomoisky, a metals, banking and media tycoon, was named governor of
> his native region of Dnipropetrovsk, while Serhiy Taruta, the country's
> 16th-richest man, according to Forbes Ukraine, was named governor of his
> home Donetsk region. Both oligarchs are seen as pro-European and
> Kolomoisky's media have provided sympathetic coverage of the pro-Western
> protests.
>
>
> The move comes after other top oligarchs, including the country's
> richest man and a key backer of Yanukvoych's Party of Regions, Rinat
> Akhmetov, called for preserving Ukraine's unity.
>
>
> Experts said the appointments demonstrated that despite its strong ties
> to Russia, industry leaders in eastern Ukraine who provide jobs to tens
> of thousands of Ukrainians are against a split-up.
>
>
> 'The oligarchs taking on this responsibility is a demonstration of their
> commitment to an independent, sovereign and territorially integrated
> Ukraine,' former U.S. Ambassador John Edward Herbst told The Associated
> Press.
>
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