(28 Mar 2014) Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Friday that exiled President Viktor Yanukovych had become a "tool aimed at destroying the independence of Ukraine".
Tymoshenko made the statement in response to a televised address from Yanukovych, carried by Russian media, reportedly calling for a series of regional referenda in Ukraine to decide on their government.
Tymoshenko is a candidate for the 25 May presidential elections, it will be the 53-year-old's second attempt to win the presidency
She narrowly lost to Yanukovych in 2010 and spent two years in jail on charges that many in the West considered politically motivated.
"I'm sure that for all of his statements calling for separatism, sending troops to Ukraine, turning down a legal government, destroying the independence of Ukraine, taking military actions against Ukraine, he will answer in court and will be punished according to the law," she told journalists on Friday.


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