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Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has criticized the talks between the opposition and authorities to settle the domestic situation, her daughter Yevhenya said.

“She believes the talks are pointless and unacceptable. They can only
lead to questionable compromises. The authorities simply want to buy
time. My mother is against half-measures,” Tymoshenko said in an
interview with the Austrian newspaper Die Presse, the Batkivschyna Party
said on its Web site on Tuesday.

Tymoshenko believes that very soon “citizens will win” and Ukrainian
President Viktor Yanukovych will lose control over the domestic
situation, the former prime minister’s daughter said.

That Europe has started talking about sanctions against the Ukrainian
authorities is a positive fact, Yevhenia said for her part.

“However, this should have been said much earlier. The sanctions must
be introduced over the next few days so that they can finally affect
those who are responsible for the violence,” Yevhenia Tymoshenko said.

Former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov “should be banned from entering
the EU after his interior minister did nothing to stop the violence on
the part of law enforcers,” she said.