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Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko announced Monday a hunger strike and thousands joined protests over a shock decision to scrap an EU pact as President Viktor Yanukovych appealed for calm. The duelling statements of the two arch political rivals came as up to 20,000 pro-European Union protesters massed Monday evening in central Kiev for a second day of nationwide rallies against the government. "I am announcing an indefinite hunger strike demanding that Yanukovych sign an association and free trade agreement with the EU," the fiery co-leader of the Orange Revolution was quoted by her opposition party Batkivschyna as saying. "And if Yanukovych does not sign our agreement with the EU on November 29, wipe him off the face of Ukraine through peaceful and constitutional means together with his political and corruption metastases," Tymoshenko added.
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