European leaders are increasing pressure on Ukraine to release its former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko from jail, ahead of a major summit at which the EU hopes to prise the country from Russia’s grip and firmly align its future with the west.
The issue will surely top the agenda when Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych meets counterparts from Germany, Italy and Poland today to discuss Kiev’s chances of signing key political and free trade deals with the EU at its Eastern Partnership summit in Lithuania’s capital Vilnius next month.
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