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Neil Buckley and Roman Olearchyk write: “The daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko has expressed concern about the former Ukrainian prime minister’s health if she is sentenced to a long jail term in the wake of a trial seen as test of president Viktor Yanukovich’s commitment to democracy.”

In the report, Yevgenia Tymoshenko, 31, gives her first interview since the trial began. She warned that Ukraine’s opposition would be seriously weakened if the Orange Revolution co-leader was imprisoned in one of the country’s notoriously harsh jails.

The younger Tymoshenko went on to say that her mother was getting worn out by prison but her morale remained “strong.”

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