Seeing double? Two Tymoshenkos run to become Ukraine president

Yuriy Tymoshenko, Ukrainian lawmaker and presidential candidate whose last name and initials, Y.V. Tymoshenko, are the same as Yulia Tymoshenko's, the leader of opposition Batkivshchyna party and a presidential candidate, speaks to Reuters journalists in his flat in Kiev, Ukraine March 21, 2019. Picture taken March 21, 2019. REUTERS/Sergei Karazy

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainians casting their vote in this month's presidential election will need to be sharp-eyed: two candidates with the same name and initials, Y.V. Tymoshenko, will be next to each other on the ballot paper.

One is Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and one of the frontrunners. The other is Yuriy Tymoshenko, a largely unknown lawmaker who insists he is the genuine candidate and that she is the bogus, or "technical", one sent to spoil his chances of victory.