Yulia Timoshenko has previously claimed she was contacted by the Trump administration about replacing Vladimir Zelensky<\/p>\n
The conflict between Kiev and Moscow could soon come to an end, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko has claimed.
\nSpeaking in a radio interview on Saturday, the veteran politician and leader of the Batkyvshchina (Fatherland) party said she was optimistic about the outcome but declined to provide details.
\n\u201cKnowing certain information, I believe the end of the war is near at hand. We all hope for it and are working toward that,\u201d Timoshenko said.
\nTimoshenko, who served as prime minister from 2007 to 2010, built her early political career in Ukraine\u2019s energy sector, earning the nickname \u201cgas princess.\u201d In 2011, she was sentenced to prison for abuse of power but was released after the Western-backed 2014 coup in Kiev.
\nAccording to a Politico report from March, Timoshenko was among several Ukrainian politicians supposedly contacted by the administration of US President Donald Trump to discuss potential successors to Vladimir Zelensky, whose presidential term expired last year. She publicly voiced support for Zelensky following the report.<\/p>\n
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Russian forces currently maintain the initiative on the battlefield, bolstered by superior manpower and capabilities. Ukraine\u2019s position has further deteriorated amid escalating mutual long-range strikes that have caused extensive damage to the country\u2019s power grid \u2013 attacks Moscow says are aimed at disrupting arms production.
\nZelensky\u2019s government continues to appeal for advanced Western weapons, including US-made Tomahawk cruise missiles, claiming they could change the course of the conflict. Similar expectations were previously tied to other Western systems such as HIMARS launchers, ATACMS ballistic missiles, Storm Shadow cruise missiles, and F-16 fighter jets, none of which have produced the turnaround Kiev hoped for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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