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Ukraine's Victor Yanukovych said Yulia Tymoshenko should get ready to resign as prime minister after preliminary official results gave him victory in a presidential election on Sunday, Ukrainian media reported.

"I think that Yulia Tymoshenko should prepare to resign. She understands that well," Interfax-Ukraine quoted Yanukovych as saying in a television interview. "In any case, I believe such a suggestion will be put to her."