Tymoshenko urges pro-Western protesters to keep fighting

Newly released opposition icon Yulia Tymoshenko urged the pro-Western protesters to keep up their fight that cost nearly 100 lives in the last week.

Appearing in a wheelchair on Independence Square's main stage to a rapturous welcome from a 50,000-strong crowd, Tymoshenko said: "You are heroes, you are the best of Ukraine."

The fiery 53-year-old co-leader of the 2004 pro-democracy Orange Revolution then broke down in tears.

"Do not leave Maidan (Independence Square) as long as you have not obtained what you wanted," Tymoshenko told the crowd.