The current Ukrainian government is trying to "neutralize" former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko, Batkivschyna Party leader and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
"It was absolutely untrue that Lutsenko had been imprisoned, because he did something against [Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Borys] Kolesnikov," she said in the Evening with Mykola Kniazhytsky show on TVi Channel late on Thursday.
Tymoshenko noted that Lutsenko "acted against Kolesnikov not because he wished to do so," and added that instructions had been given by former President Leonid Kuchma and current Head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Petro Poroshenko.
"These people are currently cooperating with the authorities, but Lutsenko is in prison," she said.
Tymoshenko also said that such actions by the authorities against Lutsenko were not revenge, but an attempt to "neutralize" those who do not want to be a "constructive opposition."
"Those who are not constructive are put in jail," she said.
