Ukraine: Yanukovych's People take a trip to his Palace & Private Zoo

By Ben Wardle 
@benwardle26

The crowds form a queue to tour Yanukovych's house.
Picture courtesy of Matt Frei, Channel 4 news.

After President Viktor Yanukovych fled the Ukrainian Capital Kiev and protesters took over control of his abandoned offices and house, the local people decided they would go for a little visit to where their leader spends (or should I say spent) his free time...and Channel 4 News senior correspondent Matt Frei decided to go along too.  See his pictures...scroll down. 

There was certainly plenty for the crowds to see...from a giant greenhouse Matt Frei said was for "flowers and banana trees", to a private zoo with antelopes and peacocks.

Matt Frei toured Yanukovych's Private Zoo...a picture
opportunity with the presidential peacocks. 

It will most definitely be a day trip the people of Ukraine will not forget in a hurry; seeing just what a lavish lifestyle they were funding through there taxes! Now we see why Mr Yanukovych wasn't so keen on giving up power...the peacocks, sheep, antelopes, pigs, and of course banana trees won't look after themselves....

The people of Ukraine check out Yanukovych's garden. Picture
courtesy of , Federico Escher (C4 News producer) 

All photographs courtesy of Channel 4 News Senior correspondent / presenter Matt Frei. Channel 4 News airs in the UK at 6.45pm this evening.  Scroll down for more pictures...

The house to which people queued to visit, along with @mattfrei 

The President's livestock were not to familiar with the amount of people who
came to see them...including Matt Frei of C4 News. 

Those who went into Mr Yanukovych's private zoo weren't quite to sure
what to make of it all. 

"This was the house the President never wanted his people to see" says Matt Frei