As dozens of protesters were dying on the streets of Kyiv by blunt force and bullets from police on Feb. 19-20, Ukraine’s now former President Viktor Yanukovych was quietly making an escape from his palatial estate located outside the city known as Mezhyhirya, according to time-stamped security camera footage allegedly recovered from the residence and published on YouTube.

The series of closed-circuit videos, which the Kyiv Post could not independently verify as authentic, show the deposed president had plenty of help planning his Kyiv exit days in advance and even oversaw the operation himself in the hours ahead of his final departure late on Feb. 21, following negotiations with opposition leaders and foreign ministers earlier in the day, at which time an exit strategy to the more than three-months-long political conflict was agreed upon.