Ukraine’s jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday halted a 20-day hunger strike after she was moved to a hospital to defuse a crisis overshadowing the Euro 2012 football . Ukraine’s prison authorities in the early morning transferred Tymoshenko from her jail in the eastern city of Kharkiv to the hospital where she will receive treatment from a German doctor for severe back pain. The doctor confirmed that the former prime minister had ended the hunger strike she began in April in protest at allegedly being roughly handled by prison guards. “She has halted her hunger strike. We are now building up towards a normal nutrition regime,” Lutz Harms of the Berlin Charite clinic told reporters. “This process will take several days.”
