LIVE: Ukraine MPs vote to oust Yanukovich, Tymoshenko freed

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Ukrainian MPs on Saturday voted to dismiss President Viktor Yanukovich and set early elections. Yanukovich had earlier rejected calls for his dismissal and declared all parliamentary motions illegal. Opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was also freed.

* Ukraine’s parliament declared President Viktor Yanukovich constitutionally unable to carry out his duties and set an early election for May 25.

* Opposition leader and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko was freed from the hospital where she had been under prison guard. Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years on abuse-of-power charges in 2011.

* Yanukovich has denounced Saturday’s dramatic events in Kiev, calling it a “coup d’etat” and refused to accept parliament’s authority.

* During a dramatic parliamentary session on Saturday morning, parliament voted to release jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. Lawmakers also elected Oleksandr Turchynov - a close ally of Tymoshenko - as parliamentary speaker and opposition lawmaker Arsen Avakov as interior minister until a new coalition government is formed.

* Opposition supporters seized control of the unguarded presidential office in Kiev earlier Saturday.

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Date created : 2014-02-22

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