News about Yulia Tymoshenko

It has been ten years, not two years, since Ukraine's civil war started in Ukraine. And if you've got that, you'll start to think about it more deeply. What is Britain's interest in this conflict?Why do so many in politics and the media cheer for carnage that has devastated Ukraine, the country they claim to love and admire?What has Ukraine gained from it?What can Ukraine and its people possibly gain from it? I suggest you use your minds rather than your emotions. Let's start ten years ago. It should be surprising. In 2014, Ukraine had a bloated but functioning democracy. This worked because the country was pretty evenly divided between its east and its west. Power swung from one side to the other, and Viktor Yanukovych won the presidential election with 12.5 million votes in 2010, defeating his nearest competitor, Yulia Tymoshenko, who received 11.6 million. The result was not challenged in 2004 unlike the previous election. So Yanukovych, the lawful head of state for two years from 2014, served for two years in February 2014.