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Doctors from the Berlin-based Charite Clinic will arrive in Kharkiv next week to continue the treatment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, her daughter, Yevhenia Tymoshenko, has said.

“Professor [Karl Max] Einhaupl or Doctor [Lutz] Harms will most likely come here next week,” she told journalists in Kharkiv on Friday outside the building of Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, where the ex-premier is currently undergoing treatment.

She said that German doctors were currently exchanging information with their Ukrainian colleagues and that they know that after Harms’s departure from Kharkiv the ex-premier’s back pain was not treated.

“Dr. Harms saw a skin rash, and he advised to cancel the procedures related to the treatment of back pain and even physical exercises,” the ex-premier’s daughter said.

She did not rule out that attempts would be made to deliver Tymoshenko for a court hearing of the case on the financial irregularities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation on July 23.

“Of course, they are doing everything they can to bring her to court on July 23, but it is illegal to bring her to court, and this contradicts medical recommendations. She is being treated in hospital, and she has back pain. Her presence in court is physically impossible,” Tymoshenko said.

On October 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office when signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009. She has been serving her prison term in the Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv since the end of December 2011.

The defense team has repeatedly stated that Tymoshenko had health problems even during her stay in Kyiv’s pre-trial detention center, and demanded that she be examined by independent doctors, because Tymoshenko does not trust Ukrainian doctors. On May 9, Tymoshenko was moved from the prison to Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv. The procedures for the ex-premier’s treatment in hospital have been selected by German doctors from the Charite Clinic.

The trial in the criminal case against Tymoshenko on the activities of the UESU under her management is taking place in Kharkiv.