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Kharkiv-based Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 has confirmed that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has started undergoing medical procedures. 

“Today the patient has started undergoing medical procedures. Some of them have been conducted, and the others are scheduled for the second half of the day. Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing the procedures in full as before,” Chief of Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 Mykhailo Afanasyev said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

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 go 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.