Where is Ukraine headed now?
February 23, 2014  15:59
As one disgraced president fled Kiev in the early hours of Saturday morning, so another aspiring one had landed in the city by evening. 

Within a few hours of being released from her prison hospital in the eastern city of Kharkiv, Yulia Tymoshenko had flown to Kiev and was being wheeled into Independence Square to address the crowds.

Hunched in a wheelchair, needed because of back problems, but with a resolute expression and her hair pulled into her trademark plait, she yelled rousing words from the stage to the crowd, telling them they must stay in central Kiev until their work was over, and those responsible for the violence are punished.

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