The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has extended the right to temporary asylum for former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych until October 26, 2018, according to Yanukovych's lawyer Vitaliy Serdyuk.
Ex-governor of Ukraine's Odesa region and ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili's lawyer Markiyan Halabala has announced that his client, who has recently been stripped of Ukrainian citizenship, has applied for political asylum in Ukraine.