Tymoshenko urges West to unite against Putin

Ukraine’s former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, has urged Western powers to unite on a hard line against Russian president Vladimir Putin in the Crimea crisis.

“This aggressive striving for power with regard to Ukraine represents not only a danger for the Ukrainian state — other parts of eastern Europe are also in danger,” she told German daily Der Tagesspiegel.

“Should Putin continue his attack on our country after the annexation of Crimea, I would call on the leaders of the democratic world to use the strongest measures to stop this aggressor.”