Ex-premier of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko has urged democratic world not to "legalize the Ukrainian regime."
“When Yanukovych crudely ignores the people’s will to be part of a united Europe, I’m asking the democratic world not to accept such double standards and not to legalize the present Ukrainian regime, trusting in its insincere pro-European rhetoric. This could lead to the birth and reinforcement of a new aggressive empire on the scope of the former Soviet Union, which will distort the development of the whole of humanity,” lawyer of the ex-premier Serhiy Vlasenko said, reading Tymoshenko’s statement outside the Central Clinic No. 5 in Kharkiv on Wednesday.
“Yanukovych launders the dirty money of his clans in European countries, and buys real estate, yachts, aircraft and other things with this money. The families of the Yanukovych clan live and prosper with shady corrupt money all around the democratic world in the democratic countries, and all this happens while he drowns a peaceful student’s maidan in blood, when he every day opens new criminal cases against leaders and activists of the civil society, and puts them behind the bars,” Tymoshenko said in the statement.
She also asked for Ukraine not to be left facing a “post-Soviet era dictators’ club.”
“I’m addressing to the democratic world: don’t leave now Ukraine facing a club of Post-soviet era dictators, don’t allow them with blood and fear to break the people who expressed the opposition at Euromaidans! Consolidate the faith of Ukrainians in the values the democratic world has fought for so hard!” reads Tymoshenko’s appeal to the people.
