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Ukraine's Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka has briefed the ambassadors of European countries about the situation that has evolved around the criminal cases against leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko.

Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said this at a briefing on Tuesday.

Tymoshenko met with ambassadors of the European Union countries in Kyiv on May 23.

During the meeting, the politician conveyed her vision of the situation in the country to the ambassadors and told them about the criminal cases brought against her and members of her government.

The meeting was held at the office of the EU Delegation to Ukraine.

General Prosecutor’s Office has on May 24 temporarily detained Tymoshenko alleging that such a measure in the controversial investigations viewed by many as political persecution was necessary to complete an ongoing investigation into her.

Prosecutors have launched at least three criminal cases against her.

She stands accused of wrongdoing when brokering a 2009 natural gas supply agreement with Russia, in misspending funds raised under the Kyoto Protocol and of wasting funds to purchase automobiles for Ukraine’s rural hospitals.