Yanukovych testimony postponed amid protests:
Video testimony by Ukraine's ousted President Viktor Yanukovych has been postponed in a Ukrainian court trial of five former policemen charged with fatally shooting scores of antigovernment protesters in Kyiv in 2014.
More than 100 protesters were killed in the three months of street demonstrations in Kyiv's Maidan square that forced Yanukovych to flee to Russia.
Forty-eight of them were allegedly gunned down in February 2014 by snipers who Ukrainian authorities claim received direct orders from the Russian-backed Yanukovych.
Yanukovych was to give testimony on November 25 from a courtroom in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.
The testimony, however, was postponed until November 28 after demonstrators from the Right Sector nationalist group blocked the exit of the jail where the five defendants -- former special forces officers -- are being held.
A spokesman for the group was quoted by the Ukrainian media as saying the demonstrators feared that the defendants would be set free after the court hearing. (AP, Reuters)