Ukraine's former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is currently serving her sentence in Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv, has resumed taking the medications recommended by the Health Ministry commission, Dmytro Kurushyn, the head of the healthcare sector of the State Penitentiary Service's Department in the Kharkiv region said.
"Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko began taking the medications recommended by the Health Ministry commission yesterday," Kurushyn told reporters on Tuesday.
Tymoshenko is still refusing health evaluations and remedial therapy, he said.
Kurushyn said Tymoshenko’s personal masseur gave her a sixth massage on Tuesday.
On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
Kyiv’s Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case. Because of this, Tymoshenko is being held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.
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