On January 22, the former prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was officially nominated for presidency by her Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party. To those who are interested in Ukrainian politics, Tymoshenko’s presidential ambitions hardly came as a surprise as the politician already tried her chances in the presidential elections of 2010 and 2014, finishing second both times.
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Hromadske International: Will Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko be third time lucky?
Ex-Prime Minister, leader of the Batkivshchyna Party and 2019 presidential candidate Yulia Tymoshenko listens to a question by BBC presenter Stephen Sackur at a panel discussion of the future of Ukraine during the Yalta European Strategy conference in Kyiv on Sept. 15, 2018.
