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Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that she lodged a lawsuit at the Pechersk District Court of Kyiv against a resolution by the Prosecutor General's Office to open a criminal case against her regarding the gas contracts signed between Ukraine and Russia in 2009.

"We, along with Serhiy Volodymyrovych [Vlasenko, a BYT-Batkivschyna deputy whom Tymoshenko wants to see as her lawyer], challenged at the Pechersk court the decision to open a criminal case on gas issues," she told journalists on Tuesday before another round of interrogation at the Prosecutor General’s Office.

She said that the lawsuit had been filed on May 4.