Yuliya Timoshenko speaks with journalists

Batkivshchyna Party leader Yuliya Timoshenko speaks with journalists before interrogation in the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, in Kiev, on Monday, January 17, 2011. Yulia Timoshenko plans to ask investigators for permission to travel to Brussels in February. "I have an invitation for early February. I will submit all the necessary documents to the prosecutor's office and I am confident that I will go to Brussels," Yulia Timoshenko said today before going to the prosecutor's office. During her visit she plans to meet with the leaders of Batkivshchyna's partner parties in the European Union. "I am confident that I will go to Brussels in order to cooperate with our colleagues in the European Union and to make sure that Ukraine isn't crossed off the list of countries with prospects of a European future," she said. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN