The leader of the Spilna Sprava (Common Cause) public movement, Oleksandr Danyliuk, has said he has left Ukraine, because he is confident that his detention was being prepared.

"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."

"Today I have finally reached London. I'll have to coordinate [the movement's activity] in exile," he added.

As reported, Spilna Sprava activists earlier seized the buildings of the Justice Ministry, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry and the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry.

UDAR Party leader Vitali Klitschko entered the Justice Ministry building and tried to convince activists to release the building, but his request was ignored. The national resistance headquarters described the seizure of the Justice Ministry as provocation.

Danyliuk wrote on Facebook on January 27 that the activists had left the building of the Justice Ministry, but would continue to block it.

However, clashes erupted between Spilna Sprava activists and Svoboda representatives in the building of the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry on January 29. Svoboda activists said that they were freeing the ministry building from "provocateurs" on the instruction of the Maidan's council.

The confrontation resulted in an agreement according to which Spilna Sprava activists left the ministry building and moved to Ukrainian House.