The jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko will face murder charges as soon as she is healthy enough to be questioned, a senior Ukrainian prosecutor has told The Independent.
Any decision to press ahead with the controversial prosecution – which centres on the murky gangland murder of a businessman 17 years ago – is likely to place Kiev on a collision course with the European Union and the United States, which already take the view that Ms Tymoshenko was wrongfully imprisoned in 2011 following a previous trial.
