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Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko speaks at Independence Square on February 22, 2014, moments after parliament voted to hold early presidential elections in May. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO /BULENT KILIC

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko arrives to speak at Independence Square on February 22, 2014, moments after parliament voted to hold early presidential elections in May. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko reacts as she speaks at Independence Square on February 22, 2014, moments after parliament voted to hold early presidential elections in May. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO /BULENT KILIC

People greet newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko as she arrives to speak at Independence Square on February 22, 2014, moments after parliament voted to hold early presidential elections in May. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY

Yevgenia Tymoshenko (R), greets her mother, newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko, as she arrives in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko speaks to the press after arriving in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko delivers a speech on Kiev's Independance square on February 22, 2014, after her release. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko delivers a speech on Kiev's Independance square on February 22, 2014, after her release. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko waves from a car after arriving in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko delivers a speech on Kiev's Independance square on February 22, 2014, after her release. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko waves from a car after arriving in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko kisses a flower as she visits the site where an opposition protester was killed near a barricade on Grushevsky street in Kiev on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko delivers a speech on Kiev's Independance square on February 22, 2014, after her release. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko (C) arrives in Kiev flanked by Head of Batkivshchyna party Arseniy Yatsenyuk (L) and her lawyer Sergiy Vlasenko (R) on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ANDREW KRAVCHENKO

Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko greets people as she arrives to speak at Independence Square on February 22, 2014, moments after parliament voted to hold early presidential elections in May. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine," she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO/ ANATOLII STEPANOV