Former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko received injuries of moderate severity during a clash between police and activists outside the Sviatoshynsky district police department, his wife Iryna Lutsenko has said.
“The state [of his injuries] is of moderate severity – this is the preliminary conclusion of the doctors,” she said at the press conference on Saturday.
“Doctors diagnosed an internal head injury, concussion of the brain, a gash to the head which was sewn up, and three subdermal hematomas, I stress not intracranial, as well as cuts and bruises,” Lutsenko said.
Lutsenko can speak. He will stay in the intensive care for several days, Lutsenko’s wife said.
She also reported that investigators from the prosecutor’s office came to take evidence, but the doctors have banned anybody, apart from his wife, from speaking with him.
Iryna Lutsenko also denied rumors on the Internet that her husband’s kidneys had failed and said that Lutsenko had only sustained head injuries. She said this was “stirring up tensions in the situation in the political field” to provoke sanctions from the international society.
Lutsenko’s lawyer Ihor Fomin said criminal case regarding body injuries caused to the ex-minister have been initiated by the prosecutor’s office, while Lutsenko himself won’t submit any applications to the law enforcement agencies.
