Eugenia Tymoshenko says her mother is ‘very physically weak’, as more European governments announce Euro 2012 boycott The daughter of the jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said her mother has been “brutally beaten” in prison, as more European governments announced they were boycotting next month’s European football championship in protest. Eugenia Tymoshenko told the Guardian the threat by Germany and other European countries not to send ministers to Euro 2012, co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland, had taken the government in Kiev by surprise. “It’s keeping her going,” she said of her mother.

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