It was a day of incredible drama throughout Ukraine. After a week of bloody protests the president finally fled, the police melted away and the opposition seized control. Ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was released and addressed huge crowds in Kiev.
Shaun Walker and Harriet Salem
The Observer, Saturday 22 February 2014
As one disgraced president fled Kiev in the early hours of Saturday
morning, so another aspiring one had landed in the city by evening.
Within a few hours of being released from her prison hospital in the
eastern city of Kharkiv, Yulia Tymoshenko had flown to Kiev and was being wheeled into Independence Square to address the crowds.
Hunched
in a wheelchair, needed because of back problems, but with a resolute
expression and her hair pulled into her trademark plait, she yelled
rousing words from the stage to the crowd, telling them they must stay
in central Kiev until their work was over, and those responsible for the
violence are punished.
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