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Ukrainian presidential candidate and leader of the Batkivschyna party Yulia Tymoshenko is organizing a popular resistance movement which she is ready to lead.

“I have decided right now to do all I can to support the popular
resistance movement which must be broadened by recruiting volunteers who
want to defend Ukraine” Tymoshenko said on the Svoboda Slova (Freedom
of Speech) program on ICTV television on Monday evening, April 14.

She said this movement must be comprised of military people with
fighting experience, ex-special police force officers and people well
versed in strategies of military doctrines.

The headquarters have been set up and will gather for a meeting on April 15 “to plan each step we will make,” Tymoshenko said.

“I am urging all who are ready to defend Ukraine to sign up. The
organizing center will be accommodated at the headquarters at first and
then we will move to the east and work according to plans that the
headquarters will propose,” Tymoshenko said.