Oleksandr Tymoshenko, the husband of the convicted former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, has appealed to international organizations asking them to help Ukraine in holding new fair parliamentary elections, and asked his wife to stop her hunger strike.

"I appeal to a wife and mother, the leader of the opposition, a brave fighter, a patriot of Ukraine - Yulia Tymoshenko - with a request that she stop her hunger strike. Your life no longer belongs to you, your life belongs to Ukraine, it belongs to eleven million Ukrainians who at the presidential elections saw you as the president of Ukraine and see you as the head of our country in the near future. Through your actions you once again confirmed that even in the dungeons of the current government, one can fight for freedom and be stronger than the regime that fears you. But your fasting and its possible consequences may be playing into their hands," the press service of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Union quoted Tymoshenko's husband, who received political asylum in the Czech Representative, on Thursday.

Oleksandr Tymoshenko also urged the international organizations of Ukrainians in the world, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, national parliaments of the EU countries to help Ukraine in its struggle for democracy and its European choice, in its struggle for the respect for human rights, for the new fair and democratic elections involving Tymoshenko and the imprisoned former interior minister, Yuriy Lutsenko.

"We're asking the international community not to support the dictator [Ukrainian President Viktor] Yanukovych, not to pretend that he is holding reforms, but to help us launch a public international anti-corruption inquiry into the outright shadowy financial activities of Yanukovych's family and his entourage, to stop all of them, and bring Ukraine into the European family and to European values," Tymoshenko's husband said.