KIEV, Feb. 3 – The leader of the Spilna Sprava (Common Cause) public movement, Oleksandr Danyliuk, has said he has left Ukraine because he was certain he had been about to be detained.

"Unfortunately, the Maidan is not a safe place. The counterrevolutionary fifth column has switched from hindering the revolution to suppressing it. Representatives of the regime protecting bodies filtered into the Maidan under the cover of masks and some opposition members. The question of my detention and subsequent imprisonment was to be resolved within several hours," he reported on his page on Facebook.

Danyliuk said that he had left the center of the city incognito and "crossed the border on foot at night after several days of the concealed movement."