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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, a candidate for the presidential elections, talks to the media after casting her ballot at a polling station during the presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, March 31, 2019. Ukrainians choose from among 39 candidates for a president they hope can guide the country of more than 42 million out of troubles including endemic corruption, a seemingly intractable conflict with Russia-backed separatists in the country's east and a struggling economy. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Ukraine: Rival accuses incumbent president of rigging vote

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

An electoral worker holds a ballot box at a polling station, during the presidential elections in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, March. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine comedian leads presidential election, runoff likely

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Ukrainian actor and candidate in the upcoming presidential election, hosts a comedy show at a concert hall in Brovary, Ukraine, Friday, March 29, 2019. Zelenskiy now surging ahead of both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko in the presidential context according to polls. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Comedian leads presidential polling in Ukraine

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian who is leading Ukraine's presidential election race, has urged his supporters to propose candidates for top government jobs. (Associated Press/File)

Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine comedy actor, leads race for president

By Filip Warwick and Jabeen Bhatti - Special to The Washington Times

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks during her press conference in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, March. 7, 2019. Tymoshenko is running in the president election scheduled for March 31. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine candidate vows ‘prison for life’ for military graft

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Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during his interview with The Associated Press, in Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Zelenskiy, who has taken the lead in Ukraine’s presidential race, says his popularity reflects the public disillusionment with the nation’s politicians. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine has 44 presidential candidates in all-time record

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko is registered as a candidate for the presidency at the Central Election Commission Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Presidential vote in Ukraine is to take place on March 31. (Mikhail Palinchak, Presidential Press Service via AP)

AP Interview: Ukraine ex-PM accuses president of corruption

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko speaks at a meeting with supporters in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Poroshenko declared his intention to run for re-election in March's presidential vote. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Comedian takes lead in Ukraine presidential race, polls show

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko addresses supporters during campaign rally in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. Tymoshenko has announced her presidential bid. Opinion polls have placed the 58-year-old, who was the country's prime minister between 2007 and 2010, as a front-runner in the presidential election set for March 31. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine’s ex-PM announces presidential bid

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Ukraine: Ex-premier Tymoshenko announces presidential run

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Tymoshenko leaves Berlin hospital; heading home

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In this picture publicly provided by the Charite hospital in Berlin, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , center, poses with her doctors Professor Karl Max Einhaeupl , left, CEO of the Charite Hospital and doctors from left : Dr. Anett Reisshauer , Professor Nobert Haas, Professor Matthias Endres, and Professor Peter Vajkoczy in the Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, on Saturday March 8, 2014. Ukraine's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has started medical treatment at Berlin's Charite hospital after arriving late Friday, but doctors treating her say it's too soon to say how long this will take. (AP Photo/ho/Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin) MANDATORY CREDIT

Ukraine ex-leader Tymoshenko’s back pain improving

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The team of doctors involved in treating Yulia Tymoshenko, from left, Peter Vajkoczy, Norbert Haas, Matthias Endres, Anett Reisshauer and Karl Max Einhaeupl attend a press conference at Charite Hospital in Berlin, Germany, Saturday March 8, 2014. Ukraine's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has started medical treatment at Berlin's Charite hospital after arriving late Friday, but doctors treating her say it's too soon to say how long this will take. Hospital chairman Karl Max Einhaeupl says doctors will decide by Monday whether the 53-year-old needs an operation for her severe back pain resulting from slipped discs she suffered more than two years ago. (AP Photo/dpa,Kay Nietfeld)

Ailing Tymoshenko may get back operation in Berlin

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EST

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In this image made from video released by the Regional Administration of Kharkiv and distributed by AP Video, Viktor Yanukovych, President of Ukraine, speaks in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014. Protesters took control of Ukraine's capital Saturday, seizing the president's office as parliament voted to remove him and hold new elections. Yanukovych described the events as a coup and insisted he would not step down. After a tumultuous week that left scores dead and Ukraine's political destiny in flux, fears mounted that the country could split in two — a Europe-leaning west and a Russian-leaning east and south. (AP Photo / Regional Administration of Kharkiv)

Ukraine: Parliament boss takes presidential powers

By YURAS KARMANAU and MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Monday, April 4, 2011, photo, Yulia Tymoshenko, former Ukrainian prime minister and main opposition leader, is pictured in her headquarters in Kiev. Tymoshenko's party alleged widespread elections violations, such as vote-buying and multiple voting, and the jailed leader, who is currently undergoing treatment for a back problem in a Ukrainian hospital, launched a hunger strike in protest. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukrainian ex-premier Tymoshenko freed

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Demonstrators hold up a flag with the face of jailed former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during a protest in Kiev on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the Ukrainian capital to demand that the government reverse course and sign a landmark agreement with the European Union in defiance of Russia. The protest was the biggest Ukraine has seen since the peaceful 2004 Orange Revolution, which overturned a fraudulent presidential election result and brought a Western-leaning government to power. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Tens of thousands rally in Ukraine for closer EU ties

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

POPADIUK: Ukraine’s shift toward Europe

By Roman Popadiuk

Eugenia Tymoshenko (left), daughter of imprisoned former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, and Serhiy Vlasenko, the lawyer for the jailed politician, watch a parliament session in Kiev on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013. Opposition leader Arseniy Yatsenyuk told a parliamentary committee hearing on Monday he had received a text message from Mr. Vlasenko saying that he had been arrested. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Former Ukraine leader Yulia Tymoshenko’s lawyer is questioned, charged

By Maria Danilova - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych during their meeting with EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood policy Stefan Fule in Kiev, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013.Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is hoping for a quick solution to the problem the jailed former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, whose release is a key condition for a landmark agreement with the European Union.(AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov,Pool)

Embassy Row: Pressing Ukraine on Tymoshenko

By James Morrison - The Washington Times