- Title: Ukraine's Tymoshenko announces she will run for president
- Date: 20th June 2018
- Summary: KIEV, UKRAINE (JUNE 15, 2018) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** TYMOSHENKO ON STAGE DURING MEETING WITH HER SUPPORTERS, PEOPLE HOLDING UKRAINIAN FLAG NEXT TO HER PEOPLE APPLAUDING TYMOSHENKO KISSING UKRAINIAN FLAG AND POSING FOR PICTURES HOLDING FLAG
- Embargoed: 4th July 2018 17:37
- Keywords: Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Ukraine president Ukraine presidential election Tymoshenko Tymoshenko File
- Location: KIEV, UKRAINE / YALTA, CRIMEA
- City: KIEV, UKRAINE / YALTA, CRIMEA
- Country: Ukraine
- Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA0028L437EH
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: VIDEO QUALITY OF YULIA TYMOSHENKO'S STATEMENT AS INCOMING
Ukrainian opposition leader and political veteran Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday (June 20) she would run for president in elections due next year.
"I will run for the post of President of Ukraine," she said during a question-and-answer video posted on her official Facebook page.
Tymoshenko led an opinion poll conducted in May by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kiev-based Razumkov think-tank, with support among likely voters of 13 percent. Incumbent President Petro Poroshenko came fourth in the poll.
Tymoshenko, 57, a powerful speaker known in her heyday for her trademark peasant hair-braid, served twice as prime minister and ran for president in 2010 and 2014.
She served two years of a seven-year term, mainly under prison guard in a hospital in Kharkiv, before being released when then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich fled Ukraine on Feb. 20, 2014 and was subsequently ousted by parliament.
She was wildly popular at the height of her power when she led tens of thousands on the streets of Kiev against an earlier bid for power by Yanukovich in what became known as the Orange Revolution. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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