Doctors of Kyiv Sociotherapy City Hospital (the addiction hospital of the Health Ministry of Ukraine) have found alcohol in the blood of the leader of the Third Ukrainian Republic party, former interior minister, Yuriy Lutsenko.
“Alcohol was found in the blood of Yuriy Lutsenko. Toxicological examination of Yuriy Vitaliyovych’s blood was held at Kyiv Sociotherapy City Hospital, which was brought from the Boris clinic. As a result, the clinic was handed an official report, which indicates that on January 10, Yuriy Lutsenko was under the influence of alcohol,” the chief medical officer of the clinic, Volodymyr Yary, said on air of the 1+1 Channel.
However, the wife of the politician, MP Iryna Lutsenko of the Batkivschyna Party, denied this information at a press conference on Monday.
“The next day (after Lutsenko got injured) as of 1530 he was in the intensive care unit under droppers. At that time, there were no examinations and no blood samples were taken from Lutsenko. No one drank any alcohol. Well, except Givalex, cough medicine, as he got a cold,” Iryna Lutsenko said.
As reported, on January 10, Kyiv Sviatoshynsky court of Kyiv region found Ihor Mosiychuk, Volodymyr Shpara and Serhiy Bevz guilty of the intention to blow up a monument to Lenin in Boryspil during the Independence Day celebrations in 2011 and sentenced them to six years in prison each. Activists tried to block a prison van with the convicts. Clashes between the Berkut special forces and the protesters were reported.
Lutsenko sustained serious injuries when attempting to prevent clashes between the protesters and the security forces. He was hospitalized.
According to media reports, criminal inquiry was launched into the use of force by Berkut riot police officers, as well as into infliction of bodily injury to Lutsenko.
Doctors say his injuries are of moderate severity. They diagnosed an internal head injury, concussion, a gash to the head, as well as cuts and bruises.
