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Kharkiv - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is lying down almost all of the time, and it is hard for her to write and communicate, her defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said.

“I would describe Yulia Volodymyrivna’s condition as poor. Yulia Volodymyrivna has to lie down almost all the time. I will remind you that there’s a special orthopedic couch in a room for meetings with defense lawyers, and Yulia Volodymyrivna is lying down on it all the time. She has seriously lost weight. I last saw her on Thursday. She’s much thinner even compared with Thursday. At the same time, it’s hard for her to write and communicate. She’s exhausted,” Vlasenko told reporters on Monday after meeting with Tymoshenko.

He said that the former prime minister had been on a hunger strike for a 15th day. Vlasenko said that despite the deterioration of her physical condition, her “morale remains unbroken.”

“Her morale is absolutely unbroken, and I’m sure they would like her to be broken. They won’t see that,” Vlasenko said.

As reported, on October 29, Tymoshenko went on a hunger strike in protest against rigged parliamentary elections.

The next court hearing of the UESU case is to be held on November 13. According to the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine, Tymoshenko again refused to participate in the meeting.