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Ukraine's ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is currently serving a prison term in Kharkiv, refused medical treatment again on March 26, the state penitentiary service reported.

Doctors from the Health Ministry and the State Penitentiary Service offered her a paravertebral block procedure at 5 p.m. on March 26 under her individual medical treatment plan at the diagnostic medical center were she had undergone previous examinations, or at the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences’ Sitenko Institute of Spine and Joint Therapy with a scanner. Tymoshenko refused," the service said.