Ukraine's jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has hailed a European Union-Ukraine summit on Monday as a way to "slow down the swift slide of our country toward extreme authoritarianism."
“I thank the EU leaders for resuming their dialogue with the supreme leadership of Ukraine. This will not make a democrat out of [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, but, before the current regime is removed, it will make it possible to slow down the swift slide of our country toward extreme authoritarianism and preclude what would be the worst scenario for Ukraine,” Tymoshenko said in a commentary posted on the Web site of her Batkivschyna party.
The summit took place in Brussels.
