Former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has thanked former Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko for his courage and stated that the opposition leaders are ready to sacrifice their freedom for the liberation of the state from the regime of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych.
"I will not analyze their decisions, as absurd cannot be analyzed. The whole country and the whole world can see who exactly has power in Ukraine, who orders and churns out political sentences. Everyone and everything have got their names. I would like to say another thing. The day of Yuriy Lutsenko’s conviction was also a day of the declaration of the verdict on Yanukovych’s regime," reads Tymoshenko’s commentary on Lutsenko’s conviction, which was posted on the Web site of the Batkivschyna Party on Monday.
"Yes, they throw us behind bars, but they are afraid of us even more. They hide us in prisons but they feel with their animal instincts that they are running out of time," Tymoshenko said.
According to her, no matter what the current authorities do, "they are unable to deceive and intimidate the everyone."
"They announce verdicts to us and get their own verdict, from which they will never hide behind any walls, castles or residences. Their end will come soon. And it will come not from abroad. Their inglorious end will come from Ukraine: from Lviv and Donetsk, from Odesa and Poltava, from Chernihiv and Kharkiv," Tymoshenko said.
"Today we are behind bars. But if we have to pay such a price for the liberation of the country, then we are ready to pay it. I know that Yura [Lutsenko] will support me," Tymoshenko said.
Tymoshenko thanked Lutsenko for his patience, courage, dignity, strength, nobility and for being "a real man against the background of those powerless clowns" that attempted to judge him.
Tymoshenko is serving her seven-years sentence in Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv. Lutsenko was sentenced to four years in prison on Feb. 27.
