Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko speaks at Independence Square on Saturday, February 22, hours after being released from prison. Tymoshenko, considered a hero of a 2004 revolution against Yanukovych, was released after 2½ years behind bars.
{"Image ImageDescription": "Newly freed Ukrainian opposition icon and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko delivers a speech on Kiev's Independance square on February 22, 2014. Ukraine's opposition leader and former premier Yulia Tymoshenko, sentenced to a seven-year jail term in 2011 for abuse of power, was released on February 22. Tymoshenko received a rapturous welcome on Independence Square. \"You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine,\" she told the 50,000-strong crowd before breaking down in tears. The latest developments in the ex-Soviet nation's three-month political crisis came after protesters took control of Kiev's charred city centre and seized Yanukovych's lavish residence on a day of dramatic twists and turns. AFP PHOTO / LOUISA GOULIAMAKILOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP/Getty Images", "Image Artist": "LOUISA GOULIAMAKI"}