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Ukraine's jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday denied she was behind the killing of a powerful lawmaker in 1996, calling the murder charge against her "hysteria". "I can state clearly and unambiguously that I have nothing to do with the tragic murder of Yevgen Shcherban in 1996, and this will be proven in international courts and in the courts of other countries," Tymoshenko said in a statement read to journalists by her lawyer Sergiy Vlasenko.

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