Interpol has put ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych on the international wanted list, a year after he fled to Russia.

Mr Yanukovych, 64, is wanted for misappropriation of funds and embezzlement in Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities said Interpol's publication of the so-called "red notice" empowered any police force to hand him over to Ukraine if he was detained.

The former president has been living in Russia since his ousting, and Ukrainian interior minister Arsen Avakov accused Moscow of violating international law by giving shelter to the most wanted man in Kiev.

"The Russian general prosecutor's office is basically lying when it claims that it never received a request from its Ukrainian colleagues for the extradition of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and other politicians," Mr Avakov wrote on Facebook.

In Moscow, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted a source familiar with the situation as saying Russia was unlikely to grant any request to extradite Mr Yanukovych to Ukraine.

Mr Yanukovych fled across the border into Russia in February last year after months of street protests in Kiev.

The protests were against his decision to back away from a deal that would take Ukraine towards integration with Europe and tighten economic ties with Russia, Ukraine's old Soviet master.

The pro-western authorities who took over have accused him and a coterie of relatives and close allies, known as The Family, of accumulating huge wealth by robbing state coffers and plundering national assets through corrupt deals.

Mr Yanukovych denied he or members of his family were involved in corruption.

After he fled, Russia said Mr Yanukovych was the victim of a "fascist" coup and went on to annex Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

In confrontation with Kiev's pro-Western leadership, it has supported separatists in Ukraine's industrialised east in a conflict in which more than 4,700 people have been killed, though Moscow denies its forces have been involved in fighting.

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