LVIV, May 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych, during his first visit to Lviv, the stronghold of his political opponents, announced plans to bid for hosting 2022 Winter Olympics, but messed up the name of a Ukrainian region that could accommodate it.

He suggested the Olympics be hosted by Bukovyna, as the Chernivtsi region is known, but his aides had later explained he had actually meant Bukovel, a Ukrainian ski resort in the Carpathians.