Tymoshenko preparing for third round - reports

09:59

Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said a third round was possible in Ukraine's presidential election and she instructed her lawyers to get ready to challenge the election returns in court.

Tymoshenko told the parliamentary faction of her political bloc BYT, that she would "never accept [her rival] Viktor Yanukovych's victory in such elections," the newspaper Ukrainska Pravda reported, citing its own sources.

But part of the BYT parliamentary faction, led by Deputy Speaker Mykola Tomenko, is ready to recognize Yanukovych's victory, as well as Tymoshenko's joining the opposition ranks, the newspaper said.

09.02.2010