KHARKOV, February 22, (ITAR-TASS) - Ukrainian ex-premier Yulia Timoshenko said she would run for presidency.

The presidential elections in Ukraine are scheduled for May 25.

“I’m going to Maidan (Independence Square),” she said.

The ex-premier has been carried out from the clinic on a wheelchair, but she is in cheerful mood.

The ex-premier, who has been freed, has left for Kiev by special flight.