Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko acknowledged Thursday that she acted radically while in office when she aggressively tried to overturn state privatizations.

"Yes, undoubtedly, I was radical," Tymoshenko told The Associated Press. "Probably my mistake was that I wanted to do everything quickly, as people expected."

Tymoshenko said that she ran into trouble because "all the other team members agreed on something else behind my back. In that case, my actions were groundlessly radical."

"I am sure that in some months, the people of Ukraine will understand that I was taken away not for low-quality work, not for ineffective work, but just for what I did fulfilling the requests of the voters," said Tymoshenko.