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The coalition of Tymoshenko's Bloc ( BYuT ) and Yushchenko's Our Ukraine – People's Self-Defense Bloc ( OU-PSD ) was put at risk due to differing opinions concerning the ongoing 2008 South Ossetia War between Georgia and Russia.

Yulia Tymoshenko disagreed with Yushchenko's condemnation of Russia and preferred to stay neutral on the issue.

Yushchenko's office accused her of taking a softer position in order to gain support from Russia in the upcoming 2010 election.

Andriy Kyslynskyi, the president's deputy chief of staff, went as far as to accuse her of ' high treason '.

According to BYuT, Viktor Baloha ( Chief of Staff of the Presidential Secretariat ) criticized the premier at every turn, accusing her of everything from not being religious enough to damaging the economy and that she was plotting to kill him, and that the accusation of ' betrayal ' over Georgia was simply one of the latest and most pernicious attacks directed at the premier.