Yulia Tymoshenko released from prison in Kharkiv

Ukrainian opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has been freed from the hospital where she was held being under prison guard after being convicted in 2011. Ukraine opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko said "a dictatorship has fallen" following her release from prison. "All must be done to ensure protesters did not die in vain", she added.

Ukraine opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko hugs someone as she is released from prison.  
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Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko reacts after she was freed .  
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Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was in a wheelchair when she spoke to journalists.  
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