Ukraine's Prime Minister and presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko gestures as she leaves a polling station after voting in the presidential election, in Dnipropetrovsk, on Jan. 17. Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Sunday she was ready to start talks with former presidential candidates to gain their support in a second round of voting for president.

Exit polls from Sunday's election showed she was between 4 to 11 percent behind opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich -- a margin smaller than previous opinion polls had indicated.

"As of today, I am ready for talks so that we can move forward with uniting the democratic forces," she told journalists.