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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has informed the State Guard Department that the life of presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko may be in danger.

“Today SBU notified the State Guard Department, which is responsible for ensuring the security of Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate, that there exists a threat to her life,” Tymoshenko’s spokeswoman, Maryna Soroka, told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.