Viktor Yanukovych died in Russia

The son of the former president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, died on Lake Baikal in Russia. The information was confirmed by a deputy from the Opposition Bloc faction and a friend of the Yanukovich family, Nestor Shufrich.

“Viktor Viktorovich Yanukovych died tragically. He died the way he lived - while driving a car,” the message appeared page Nestor Shufrich in Facebook. At the same time, the deputy did not report the circumstances and place of the death of Yanukovych Jr.

Earlier controversial reports appeared about the death of Yanukovych Jr.

He was participating in sporting events on Lake Baikal when a Volkswagen minibus, in which there were 5 other people besides him, fell through the ice. Viktor Yanukovych Jr. drowned, other passengers managed to escape, the site wrote Left Coast.

At the same time, the tragedy on Baikal was confirmed Headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Irkutsk region. According to the report, on the evening of March 20 in the waters of Lake Baikal near the northern tip of Olkhon Island, a car crashed with a driver and five passengers in it.

“In violation of the requirements of prohibitory information signs, citizens went out onto the ice to take several photographs. Near Cape Khoboy, a car fell into a crack. The depth in this place is more than 20 meters,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said.

“At 23.40 (Irk.) five people who managed to leave the sinking Volkswagen were found and taken to the village. Sakhyurta on the hovercraft "Khivus-10". Rescuers from the Sakhyurta PSP returned to the place where the car crashed at the supposed coordinates using GPRS and found the driver’s body in the ice hole,” the report says. The name of the deceased is not disclosed.

Russian media reports citing the Russian Emergencies Ministry claimed that Muscovite Viktor Davydov, who, like Yanukovych Jr., was 33 of the year, died in an accident on Baikal.

However, the same sources indicated that the name of Davydov before marriage with Viktor Yanukovych was worn by his wife Lyudmila Yanukovych.