As the Euro 2012 co-hosts face England tonight, the woman who once seemed set for the presidency will still be locked up on charges many say are bogus. Shaun Walker reports from her hospital-prison in Kharkiv.
If Yulia Tymoshenko had won just a fraction more
of the vote in a close-run election two years ago, she would probably
have been watching Ukraine’s Euro 2012 match with England tonight from
the presidential box. Instead, she has spent the tournament locked up on
the ninth floor of the Ukrainian Railways Diagnostic Hospital, a grim
institution in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
