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Verkhovna Rada Chairman Volodymyr Lytvyn is to send an official inquiry to the Interior Ministry, the State Penitentiary Service, and the Health Ministry to receive in written form information on the situation with former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko.

"I will send an inquiry for official information in written form from the Prosecutor General’s Office, the penitentiary service, and the Health Ministry," Lytvyn told the members of the BYT-Batkivschyna parliamentary faction that have blocked the tribune in the parliament.

Lytvyn called on the opposition lawmakers to submit an official draft instruction to invite the prosecutor general and representatives from the penitentiary service to parliament to hear their reports on the situation with Tymoshenko’s health.

Lytvyn closed the parliament’s morning sitting, while the BYT-Batkivschyna faction members continue to block the tribune and the presidium of the parliament. The deputies put chairs at the entrance of the presidium of the session hall, where the leadership of the parliament sits, and surrounded the tribune.

As reported by an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent, the MPs of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction covered the presidium with a poster reading "Yanukovych, Don’t Kill Yulia!"

The break between the morning and evening sittings of parliament will last, as usual, from 1400 until 1600.