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Yevhenia Tymoshenko, the daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, will be allowed to visit her mother in Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv on Monday, the press office of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported on Saturday.

 

“Under the current regulations, prisoners cannot be visited on
weekends. Therefore, we state that Yevhenia Tymoshenko will have an
opportunity to meet with prisoner Yulia Tymoshenko on Monday,” reads the
statement.

Earlier, Tymoshenko said that she had not been allowed to see her mother.

“Unfortunately, I was not allowed to visit her, even for a minute.
They said that today was a day off and that nobody will come out to me.
Even the chief of the guards did not come out to me. The question arises
what is happening to my mom? What is her health?” Tymoshenko told
reporters outside the building of the hospital on Saturday.

On January 18, Tymoshenko’s defense lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko said that Tymoshenko’s condition has sharply deteriorated.

“She is in the bathroom (where the ex-premier is holding her protest
action). When I went there, I thought she was dead, she did not react to
my presence and did not recognize me for two minutes,” he told
reporters in Kharkiv.

Head of Ukrzaliznytsia’s Central Clinical Hospital in Kharkiv
Mykhailo Afanasyev, in turn, said: “It’s not so. I don’t understand why
the defense lawyer made such a statement. The patient took a painkiller,
the same one that she took earlier. It’s clear that this medicine
causes drowsiness, and the lawyer is well aware of this. And we also
informed him that [Tymoshenko] took this medicine. She has taken this
medicine more than once.”