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KIEV, Ukraine, Sept. 9 - Ukraine's ousted prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, said Friday that the partnership that led the "Orange Revolution" last year was over and that she would no longer support the man who fired her, President Viktor A. Yushchenko.

When the president dismissed her on Thursday, she said on a late-night talk show: "He practically ruined our unity, our future, the future of the country. I think this step is absolutely illogical."

The dismissal capped a period of deteriorating relations between the former allies and came amid bitter infighting and mutual accusations of corruption in the president's inner circle.

Ms. Tymoshenko added to questions swirling around Mr. Yushchenko's government by accusing four of his aides of corruption. She offered no proof. But Mr. Yushchenko's former chief of staff, Oleksandr O. Zinchenko, said in an interview on Friday that he had submitted three documents to the country's prosecutor general that he said demonstrated acts of corruption.

In a final attempt at reconciliation, Ms. Tymoshenko said, the president asked her to reach out to her antagonists in the administration. "How could I reach out my hand to them when their hands were busy stealing from the country?" she said.

Now, she said, using the president's name and patronymic: "I and Viktor Andriyovych will go to the elections in parallel ways. It does not mean it is a war. There will be two