Ukraine ex-president accused of taking key servers with him

Less than two weeks after Ukraine's new president assumed office, his staff discovered that his predecessor had apparently gutted out key computer equipment in a meeting room when he left office.

Oleksandr Danylyuk, who was appointed chairman of the National Security and Defence Council on Tuesday, said all the equipment from the so-called "situation room," where the head of the state is supposed to be discussing urgent national security matters, is gone.

Danylyuk posted a video on Facebook, showing an empty room with power cables sticking out of the walls and marks showing where computer monitors used to be.

He also claimed that former President Petro Poroshenko's staff had removed servers with confidential information.

"This is the situation room at the presidential administration, this is what it looks like now," he said in the video.

"Everything was taken away during the handover of power. This is a civilised handover for you."