Her recovery didn't take long, meds in France and instructions in Germany.
Ukraine's Tymoshenko to Run for President as 100,000 Russian Troops Near Ukraine — Naharnet
Also in Ukraine, the country's divisive opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko completed an improbable return to politics earlier on Thursday by announcing plans to contest snap polls to replace the ousted pro-Russian president whose regime sent her to jail.
"I intend to run for president of Ukraine," the 53-year-old told reporters after gingerly walking into a press room with the help of a walking stick she uses due to chronic back pain.
The brief but dramatic announcement encapsulates the spectacular changes that have swept the economically struggling and culturally splintered ex-Soviet state of 46 million in the past few weeks.
Tymoshenko -- one of the most charismatic and outspoken leaders of Ukraine's 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution -- lost a close presidential poll to Yanukovych in 2010 after heading two pro-Western cabinets that became embroiled in internal disputes and eventually lost popular support.
Her political downfall after the 2010 vote was rapid and seemingly fatal.
Yanukovych's government quickly launched a series of criminal probes against his political rival that led to a controversial trial over Tymoshenko's role in agreeing a 2009 gas contract with Russia that many Ukrainians thought came at too high a price.
Tymoshenko was convicted in October 2011 for abuse of power and sentenced to a seven-year jail term that Western nations denounced as politically motivated.
Ukraine's 'Iron lady' Tymoshenko: Bruised but Unbowed — Naharnet
Glamorous revolutionary or calculating and corrupt? From the podium to prison and back again, Ukraine's ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko is a polarizing political figure whose steely ambition has not been swayed by the scandals that have dogged her career.
Fresh from three years in prison, the highly-divisive Tymoshenko hopes to rise again following the ouster of the man who jailed her, Viktor Yanukovych, and finally secure the presidential office for herself.
The 53-year-old declared Thursday she would take part in May 25 elections, even as she was mired in a fresh scandal over leaked telephone conversations she claims were manipulated by Moscow.
Tymoshenko made a triumphant return from jail in February on the same day that her arch-foe Yanukovych was toppled after three months of bloody street protests that left around 100 people dead.
Wan, weary and in a wheelchair due to a back injury, the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution was nonetheless unbowed by the experience, showing she had not lost her charisma and penchant for fiery rhetoric.
"The dictatorship has fallen," she said in a statement upon her release, later giving a tearful address to protesters on Independence Square in Kiev.
However she received a guarded reception from the crowd, many of whom have grown wary of the allegations swirling around the once-beloved opposition figure over her ties to the corrupt elite.
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