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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is undergoing a course of treatment at Kharkiv-based Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, keeps refusing to undergo rehabilitation procedures, the clinic's chief, Mykhailo Afanasyev, has said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. 

He also said that Tymoshenko receives medication under the observation of doctors.

“She is under observation by a nurse round the clock and a doctor visits her every day. Yulia Tymoshenko receives medication in full, but refuses to undergo rehabilitation procedures,” he said.

Afanasyev added that the patient’s state of health is satisfactory in general.

On January 8, Tymoshenko declared a campaign of civil disobedience and announced this in an open letter that was read aloud by her defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko.

The former prime minister said that she refused to recognize the prosecutors and investigators involved in her case and was not going to talk to them anymore. Tymoshenko also said she would not come to court voluntarily, and should they try to bring her to court by force, she would offer every resistance she could. The ex-premier also refused to go back to her hospital ward unless video surveillance and the guard are removed.