I will not analyze the judge’s decision in this case because the absurd can’t be analyzed. All of Ukraine and the world sees who is in power in Ukraine, who orders political judgments.
I want to say something else – the day Yuriy Lutsenko was sentenced is the day a sentence was passed against the [President Viktor] Yanukovych regime.
They throw us behind bars, but they fear us even more. They hide us in jails, but their primal instinct tells them their days are numbered.
They fabricate cases against us, but they know that a real judgment is being written against them in that higher court where there are no [judges Serhiy] Vovks or [Rodion] Kireyevs, [the presiding judges in the Lutsenko and Tymoshenko trials, respectively].
Because no matter what they do, they will never put the whole nation behind bars, never deceive, never intimidate everyone.
By announcing a judgment against us they are getting a judgment from which they can’t hide, regardless of the walls, fortresses and residencies they build for themselves.
Their end will come soon. And it won’t come abroad. Their disgraceful end will come from Ukraine: from Lviv and Donetsk, from Odessa and
Poltava, from Chernihiv and Kharkiv.
Today we are behind bars. But if this is the price we must pay for the country’s liberation, then we are willing to pay it. Yuriy, I know
that you agree with me.
Thank you, Yuriy, for your patience, your courage, your honor, your strength, you dignity. Thank you for remaining a true man in the face
of the weak fools who tried to judge you.
Yulia Tymoshenko was twice prime minister of Ukraine, from 2005-2006 and again from 2007-2010.
