Your story makes no sense. If Yanokovich was going to resign the presidency immediately, then it would have been made known to the group of people he was negotiating with and become part of the written agreement they all signed. It wasn't part of the agreement and Yanokovich made no such "announcement".
-btw the term Ukie is common shorthand for Ukrainian and has no negative connotation assigned to it. Likewise, most serious analysis of the Ukie crisis taking place outside the perview of the Obama State Dept. acknowledge the extra-constitutional manner in which Yanokovich was removed from power. The Ukie parliament doesn't have the power to vote him out unilaterally which is part of the reason the 'verbal resignation' story was invented.
Listen, while we’re talking about the “legality” of this and that, Yanukovych did not have the “legal” authority to order his troops to open fire on people wearing colanders on their heads, either.
“Your story makes no sense. If Yanokovich was going to resign the presidency immediately, then it would have been made known to the group of people he was negotiating with and become part of the written agreement they all signed. It wasn’t part of the agreement and Yanokovich made no such “announcement”.”
The facts make perfect sense, because the circumstances were rapidly changing in only a period of hours between the negotiated agreement and Yanukovich’s resignation hours later. The mass killings of the protestors, who typically were not armed with anything remotely lethal and often attempting to remove other wounded protestors from the line of sniper fire by the Berkut caused most of the police and military supporters to make it known to Yanukovych they could no longer participate in Yanukovych’s crimes against humanity and were about to stand down from all operations directed against the opposition members of the Verkhovna Rada and the opposition protestors. They also advised Yanukovych much of his own Party of Regions for the same reasons was no longer going to defend the continuation of Yanukovych in office because of the mass killings of the protestors, and the opposition members of parliament were preparing to produce a warrant for the arrest and prosecution of Yanukovych, which actually occurred the following week.
Knowing full well the same evening and following day he was losing the protection of his own political party and that of most of the security and military services other than a few hardcore Ukrainian loyalists and the Russian intelligence agents in the Berkut and other government offices, Yanukovych decided it was time to resign and go into exile before the arrest warrant could be issued and served on him. That is why he agreed to talk with the leaders of the parliament and why agreed to resign as he did before in 2005. See the Russian media report of the resignation by Yanukovych:
Ukrainian parliament passes resolution on Yanukovich’s resignation
Ukraine’s parliament has approved a resolution on the resignation of President Viktor Yanukovych. A total of 328 deputies have noted for the parliament’s resolution. The resolution, which envisages holding presidential elections on May 25, 2014, will come into effect since the parliament has approved the resolution.
The resolution says Yanukovych removed himself from the constitutional powers. “The state cannot depend on the mood of the president, who has removed himself and whose whereabouts are unknown,” Verkhovna Rada speaker Aleksander Turchinov said.
“I want to say at about 15:00 Moscow time we’ve succeeded in contacting Yanukovych. In the presence of deputies Arseny Yatsenyuk (head of the Batkivshchina faction) has talked with him. Yatsenyuk proposed him to resign and he (Yanukovych) agreed,” Turchinov said, adding “Later, talking with other people Yanukovych denied his statement.”
In an interview with UBR television channel, Yanukovych said he considered the events in Ukraine “a coup d’etat”. “I’m going to resign and leave the country,” Yanukovych said.
Yanukovych was afterwards chastised by his Russian intelligence service handlers who warned him he and his family could not be given asylum in Russia if he went forward with his agreement to resign from his office as President of the Ukraine and insisted Yanukovych immediately disavow his agreement to resign.
“The Ukie parliament doesn’t have the power to vote him out unilaterally which is part of the reason the ‘verbal resignation’ story was invented.”
The Verhovna Rada does have the power to accept Yanukovich’s own resignation, and Yanukovych had the duty and responsibility to appeal the decision and acts of the Verkhovna Rada to the Constitutional Court, and he did not do so. Instead, Yanukovych abandoned his duties and his obligation to defend his position in the Constitutional Court, fled arrest and prosecution in a foreign nation engaged in hostilities against the citizens of the Ukraine, and urged Russia to invade the Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada acted with the authority of the loyal citizens of the Ukraine to restore a constitutional government which Yanukovych and his political supporters usurped with vote fraud and the unlawful “Dictatorship laws.”