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© Reuters/Cathal McNaughtonYulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainians must take up arms against Russians so that not even scorched earth will be left where Russia stands; an example of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko's vitriol in phone call leaked online.


Tymoshenko confirmed the authenticity of the conversation on Twitter, while pointing out that a section where she is heard to call for the nuclear slaughter of the eight million Russians who remain on Ukrainian territory was edited.

She tweeted "The conversation took place, but the '8 million Russians in Ukraine' piece is an edit. In fact, I said Russians in Ukraine - are Ukrainians. Hello FSB :) Sorry for the obscene language."

The former Ukrainian PM has not clarified who exactly she wants to nuke.
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The phone conversation with Nestor Shufrych, former deputy secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, was uploaded on YouTube on Monday by user Sergiy Vechirko.

The leaked conversation took placed on March 18, hours after the Crimea & Sevastopol accession treaty was signed in the Kremlin.

While Shufrych was "in shock," Tymoshenko was enraged by the results of the Crimean referendum .

"It's going too far! Bugger! We must grab arms and go whack those damn katsaps [a Ukrainian word used to refer to the Russians in a negative tone] together with their leader," Tymoshenko said.

The ex-pm declared if she was in charge "they [Russia] would've never gotten Crimea, god dammit."

Shufrych nade the valid point that Ukraine "didn't have any force potential" to keep Crimea.

But Tymoshenko, who plans to run in Ukraine's presidential election, expressed confidence that she would have found "a way to zap those assholes [Russia]."

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© RIA Novosti/Andrey SteninFormer Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, freed from prison, while making a speech in front of opposition supporters on Independence Square in Kiev.
"I'll use all my connections, I'll raise the whole world - as soon as I'm able to - in order to make sure.. Bugger!.. not even scorched earth won't remain where Russia stands," she promised.

Despite being incapacitated by spinal disc hernia the ex-PM stressed she's ready to "grab a machine gun, you know what I'm saying, and go shoot this bastard [Putin] in the forehead."

Tymoshenko rose to power as a key figure in the pro-European Orange Revolution in 2004, becoming Ukrainian prime minister 2007-2010.

She was imprisoned in 2012, under president Viktor Yanukovich, after being found guilty of exceeding her authority by signing a gas supply and transit deal with Russia.

The deal is claimed to have cost Ukraine's national oil and gas company, Naftogaz, around US$170 million.

Tymoshenko served part of her seven-year sentence in prison before being relocated to a Kharkov hospital.

She was released immediately after the Kiev coup which ousted Yanukovich.