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Serhiy Vlasenko, a defense lawyer for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, in the presence of the chief of the Kachanivska penal colony, Ihor Kolpaschykov, has given his client a radiation dosimeter.

“After one hour of the discussion, during which a commission of five or six people from the prison service sniffed at the dosimeter, tried it with their teeth, pulled the batteries out of it and tried them with their teeth, I managed to convince them that we have legal grounds to pass this dosimeter, and in the presence of the chief of the Kachanivska colony I passed the dosimeter to Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko],” Vlasenko told Interfax-Ukraine.

He also said that he had been given two dosimeters that were earlier seized by prison officers after a search of Tymoshenko’s ward in September 2012 and returned to the ex-premier on January 3.

“They gave me these dosimeters in line with an act, and I took them,” Vlasenko said.

On January 3, the leadership of Kachanivska Penal Colony No. 54 (Kharkiv) allowed transferring a dosimeter to Tymoshenko to measure the level of background radiation in her ward.