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Editor's Note: The following story was published online by Russia Today, a Kremlin-funded information organization that has been criticized for its anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian propaganda.

Former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko who is currently serving a jail
sentence for abuse of office has addressed European politicians with a
call to recognize the Ukrainian parliamentary poll as illegitimate
before it even takes place.

The address was read in the European Parliament by Tymoshenko’s
daughter Yevgenia, who also held meetings with leaders of the European
People’s Party – a coalition of European center-right parties who have
long been allies with Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party.

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