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The MP also mentioned that as evidence he has a recording taped by him during a conversation with the head of the Reforms for Future group, Ihor Rybakov.

"This recording obviously confirms the fact that some of people's deputies of Ukraine had received especially big rewards (about $500,000) for transferring from one faction to another. In addition, the recording proves that activity of some people's deputies of Ukraine is aimed at falsifying the results of the upcoming elections to the Verkhovna Rada, and that funds for discrediting the leadership and the oppositional parties in general are paid to create incentives for such further actions," Zabzaliuk said.

According to the MP, people's deputies receive $20,000-25,000 monthly and around $500,000 on the results of their work, while, according to the legislation, the Verkhovna Rada set a monthly salary for people's deputies of Hr 6,109.

"I'm asking the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine to investigate whether people's deputies of Ukraine that have extra incomes every month are fulfilling the current legislation of Ukraine, and check whether the source of such payments is legal. I'm also asking the Prosecutor General's Office to take measures to prevent consciously illegal actions to falsify the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine scheduled for Oct. 28, 2012," Zabzaliuk said.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122242/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:12:42 +0200
Earlier, in response to an address from ambassadors of EU countries, the United States and international medical organizations, the Prosecutor General's Office expressed readiness to help organize the work of a medical team for the independent examination, diagnoses and if need be treatment of Tymoshenko.

A few days ago First Deputy Health Minister Raisa Moiseyenko said that Ukrainian doctors will definitely join the commission of foreign doctors.

She said the patient could either agree to the joint examination by Ukrainian and foreign doctors, or she could refuse, then doctors would just hold a joint discussion.

According to the deputy minister, German doctors submitted all of the necessary documents for their participation in Tymoshenko's examination and could start work, while the doctors from Canada had not submitted all of the required documents.

In early February the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced that Germany and Canada were the only states ready to send their doctors to examine Tymoshenko.

In turn, the Batkivschyna Party claimed that the United States also wanted to send doctors for the examination.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122232/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:19:06 +0200
He also noted that as a convict, Tymoshenko is entitled to one short (up to four hours) meeting a month, as well as a longer meeting with her family every three months.

The official assured that there would be no restrictions on Tymoshenko's defense council Serhiy Vlasenko in visiting his client.

According to Barash, they are not planning to involve the ex-premier in prison labor so far.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122228/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:33:36 +0200
Eugenia Tymoshenko on Friday urged the prosecutors to investigate charges that her mother is bedridden and in constant pain because prison authorities are denying her painkillers, misdiagnosing and mistreating her, a treatment the daughter says amounts to torture.

Authorities insist that Tymoshenko is being treated properly and she is set to be examined by a group of foreign doctors next week. Tymoshenko has accused President Viktor Yanukovych of orchestrating the charges to get rid of a political rival.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122227/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:17:03 +0200
As reported, Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011.

On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

The ex-premier's defense counsel, Serhiy Vlasenko, said that Tymoshenko's transfer to Kharkiv penitentiary was illegal, therefore they would demand that criminal proceedings be instituted against the officers of the State Penitentiary Service who took this decision.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122225/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:51:53 +0200
Ukraine's State Penitentiary Service reported on Thursday evening that former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko began on February 9 serving her prison term, to which she was sentenced in the gas agreements case.

"As of today, Feb. 9, according to an order of an investigator in the criminal case, the detention chosen as a preventive measure for Yulia Tymoshenko doesn't apply to her anymore. Thus, today Tymoshenko has started serving her seven-year sentence, which was passed by Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, in Kachanivska penal colony," the penitentiary service said.

Chief of the SBU's Main Investigation Department said on February 9 that the Security Service of Ukraine saw no need to extend the arrest of Tymoshenko in a criminal case related to the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation since she was serving her term in prison anyway.

On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.
Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case. Because of this, Tymoshenko was held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.

Apart from the gas case, the Prosecutor General's Office opened three other criminal cases against Tymoshenko: one involving the misuse of funds that Ukraine received under the Kyoto Protocol, and one involving the purchase of ambulances for rural hospitals, and the case on the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122223/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:32:37 +0200 http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122212/ Politics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:15:05 +0200
At the same time, according to requirements of Ukraine's Criminal Procedure Code, she continues to study the materials of other criminal cases opened against her.
Tymoshenko's conditions in the penitentiary are in compliance with the requirements of the current legislation, the prison service stressed.

As reported, Chief of the SBU's Main Investigation Department said on Feb. 9 that the Security Service of Ukraine sees no need to extend the arrest of Tymoshenko in a criminal case related to the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) Corporation since she was serving her term in prison anyway.

On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case. Because of this, Tymoshenko was held in the pretrial detention center of the Kachanivska colony in Kharkiv and is not involved in community work.

Apart from this case, the Prosecutor General's Office opened three other criminal cases against Tymoshenko: one involving the misuse of funds that Ukraine received under the Kyoto Protocol, and one involving the purchase of ambulances for rural hospitals, and the case on the activities of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122156/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:58:44 +0200
On Feb. 3, 2012, Yanukovych dismissed Ihor Kalinin as head of the State Guard Department and appointed him as chief of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

From 2009 to 2011, Kulyk served as deputy head of the State Guard Department.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122142/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:58:34 +0200
Vlasenko cited the head of the Kachanivska Prison in Kharkiv, where Tymoshenko was moved in December to serve her seven-year sentence, as telling him he would "most likely have limited contact" with Tymoshenko. "His explanation was that the period of arrest hasn't been extended" for Tymoshenko, the lawyer said.

"On the one hand, they set tight time limits for reading case papers, and, on the other, they are making an attempt to limit my contacts with Yulia Volodymyrivna and our possibility of discussing those case papers. This is even more flagrant that what was done in the gas case," Vlasenko said.

He also said it was only on Thursday morning, after he arrived at Kachanivska Prison, that he was notified about the Security Service was seeking bringing forward the deadline for Tymoshenko and himself to read the papers.

"The meeting was scheduled for 11 a.m., and I was only notified at 11:10 a.m. that it was in progress," he said.

Vlasenko said the timeframe for reading the papers that the Security Service is seeking was unrealistic. Reading the 18,000 pages must take a minimum of "48,000 minutes," he said.

Vlasenko said he had been allowed about a year to read records of proceedings against former chief of the Interior Ministry's outdoor surveillance department, Oleksiy Pukach, and that no one had set him any time limits for this.

He said he did, however, have limited time for reading records of the first criminal case against Tymoshenko - based on a charge of exceeding her authority by giving the go-ahead to a natural gas agreement with Russia that allegedly ran against Ukraine's interests - and records of a case against former interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122128/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:58:08 +0200
Moskal also expressed surprise: "Well, how could the driver enter into a conspiracy with the minister? Are we holding this trial on another planet? What can be embezzled there? Can his [Lutsenko's former driver Leonid Prystupliuk's] pension be embezzled? But it's not enough even for him alone! We have total corruption in the country, and yet we found a criminal gang in the face of the minister and his driver."

At the end of the questioning, while addressing the court, the witness added: "I want the court to understand this: you want to convict an innocent person."]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122126/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:40:00 +0200
She has been bedridden at a prison in eastern Ukraine, complaining of severe back pain and accusing authorities of denying her proper medical care.

Eugenia Tymoshenko told reporters Thursday that her mother has been deprived of painkillers for several days.

"She is in horrendous pain, she cannot get up from her bed," Tymoshenko said.

She claimed that prison doctors are mistreating and misdiagnosing her mother, who will be examined by Canadian and German doctors next week.

Tymoshenko, who was convicted in October, accuses President Viktor Yanukovych of orchestrating the charges to get rid of a rival. Tymoshenko lost the last presidential race to Yanukovych.

Yanukovych has stood firm against Tymoshenko, saying that he would not intervene in her case.

He has also said that the contract that Tymoshenko approved caused the country giant losses and those who were responsible for it must face justice.

Also on Thursday, Ukraine's parliament gave initial approval to a bill that would liberalize the country's criminal code, including introducing jury trials and house arrest.

But the bill will not allow Tymoshenko's release, as Western officials have called for.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122123/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:58 +0200
According to Moiseyenko, the patient could either agree on a joint examination by Ukrainian and foreign doctors, or she could refuse, then doctors will just hold a joint discussion.

"We're expecting all our guests that applied to carry out this examination to arrive on [February] 13," she added.

According to the deputy minister, German doctors have submitted all of the necessary documents for their participation in Tymoshenko's examination and can start their work, while the doctors from Canada have not submitted all of the required documents.

As reported, in early February the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine announced that Germany and Canada were the only states ready to send their doctors to examine Tymoshenko. In turn, the Batkivschyna Party claimed that the United States also wanted to send doctors for the examination.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122122/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:40:23 +0200 On October 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on August 5, 2011. On December 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

The SBU is continuing to investigate a criminal case against Tymoshenko on an attempt to embezzle state funds of Ukraine in especially large amounts via passing to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine debts of $405.5 million of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation to the Defense Ministry of Russia.



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Serhiy Sobolev was appointed the first deputy head of the faction.

Earlier Zabzaliuk said that his formal transfer to the Reforms for Future deputy's group was planned by the leadership of his faction to discover how much they pay MPs in the group.

"They offer $500,000 for a transfer [to the parliamentary group], and then they pay a monthly salary of $20,000-25,000, and if someone proposes a fake initiative to the Batkivschyna Party they pay him additional funds. At the end of the cadence they pay additional $500,000, probably, to improve the life today," he said.

Zabzaliuk made public the records of his conversation with leader of the Reforms for Future faction, Ihor Rybakov.

The Reforms for Future group denied Zabzaliuk's claims. They said they had collected $100,000 so that he could have an operation in Israel, the member of the group said.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine said that in the case of the official appeal of Zabzaliuk on the bribing of MPs in the Verkhovna Rada, his appeal will be considered according to the law.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122120/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:16:08 +0200
The president noted that in recent years the government has significantly increased expenditures on the army.

"This was not an easy decision, because we have many other urgent problems, first of all, social problems," the press service cited Yanukovych as saying.

"The government also should not forget about military retirees, who devoted decades of their lives to serving the state," the president said.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122118/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:47:24 +0200
On October 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on August 5, 2011. On December 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky District Court ordered the arrest of Tymoshenko under the UESU case.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122116/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:19:25 +0200
The document was supported by 189 lawmakers from the Regions Party, twenty MPs of the People's Party, eighteen members of the Reforms for Future group, sixteen independent MPs, ten members of the Our Ukraine-People's Self-Defense faction. The members of the BYT faction and the Communist Party faction didn't vote for the bill.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122113/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:42:30 +0200
Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on August 5, 2011. On December 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

The SBU is continuing to investigate a criminal case against Tymoshenko on an attempt to embezzle state funds of Ukraine in especially large amounts via passing to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine debts of $405.5 million of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation to the Defense Ministry of Russia.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122111/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:11:44 +0200
As reported, on Wednesday Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych signed decrees dismissing Mykhailo Yezhel as Ukraine's defense minister and appointing the director general of the Ukroboronprom state concern, Dmytro Salamatin, to this post.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122109/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:35:39 +0200
The leader of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party MP and a member of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction in the parliament, Natalia Korolevska, said the faction sent an application the Norwegian Nobel Committee to include former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko on the list of nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize,

According to Korolevska, one of employees of the secretariat confirmed by phone that the Nobel Committee had received the application. According to the procedure, a letter with official confirmation will be sent in March.

She also reported the beginning of work of a public campaign to support Tymoshenko's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in Ukraine and at the international level.

On Oct. 11, 2011, Pechersky District Court in Kyiv sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of office in signing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

Tymoshenko was put in a pre-trial detention center in Kyiv on Aug. 5, 2011. On Dec. 30, she was transferred to Kachanivska penal colony No. 54 in Kharkiv.

The SBU is continuing to investigate a criminal case against Tymoshenko on an attempt to embezzle state funds of Ukraine in especially large amounts via passing to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine debts of $405.5 million of the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation to the Defense Ministry of Russia.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122106/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:03:11 +0200
As reported, in 2007 Chornovil was elected to the Verkhovna Rada of the sixth convocation on the list of the Party of Regions, however in October 2008 he wrote a letter of his resignation from the party and in June 2009 was excluded from the party's parliamentary faction. After a long period of being an independent MP, he joined the Reforms for Future parliamentary group formed by lawmakers who left their parliamentary factions.

Earlier Zabzaliuk said that he had never left the BYT-Batkivschyna faction, and his formal transfer to the Reforms for Future deputy's group was planned by the leadership of his faction to discover how much they pay MPs in the group.

"They offer $500,000 for a transfer [to the parliamentary group], and then they pay a monthly salary of $20,000-25,000, and if someone proposes a fake initiative to the Batkivschyna Party they pay him additional funds. At the end of the cadence they pay additional $500,000, probably, to improve the life today," he said.

Zabzaliuk made public the records of his conversation with leader of the Reforms for Future faction, Ihor Rybakov.

The Reforms for Future group denied Zabzaliuk's claims. They said they had collected $100,000 so that he could have an operation in Israel, the member of the group said.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine said that in the case of the official appeal of Zabzaliuk on the bribing of MPs in the Verkhovna Rada, his appeal will be considered according to the law.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122095/ Politics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:21:00 +0200
Earlier, Perehudov headed Ukrspecexport, the state company on exports and imports of products and services for military and special purpose.

As reported, Perehudov was appointed acting director general of the state-run arms and military hardware export and import company (Ukrspecexport) on January 9, 2011, and on February 9, 2011, Yanukovych appointed him as director general of this company. Earlier, Ukrspecexport was headed by Salamatin. Under a decree of January 4, 2011, he was appointed director general of the Ukroboronprom State Concern.

In 2010, Perehudov served as director of the state-owned Ukrinmash foreign trade and investment firm, a subsidiary of Ukrspecexport.

As reported, according to cabinet resolution No.1221 of December 29 on the creation of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, the concern consists of seven state companies, including Ukrspecexport, Ukroboronservice, Ukrinmash, the Progress foreign trade company, Spetstechnoexport Promoboronexport, and the Tasco-Export foreign trade company, although on November 8, 2010, Ukrspecexport decided to disband the latter company. Ukroboronprom will be headquartered at the same address as Ukrspecexport.

On December 9, 2010, Yanukovych instructed the government to create a state economic concern from state-owned enterprises engaged in the development, production, sale, repair, modernization and disposal of weapons, military and special equipment and ammunition, and involved in military and technical cooperation with foreign countries. The president issued a decree on December 28, 2010 to rename Ukrspecexport as Ukroboronprom, and stipulating that the concern's director general is appointed under a motion from the premier, and dismissed by the president.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122090/ Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:22:05 +0200
But he has been under fire for the slow pace of army reform in the ex-Soviet republic and his departure had been rumoured for more than a year.

Salamatin, 46, was formerly head of the Ukrainian state company responsible for arms exports and imports.

It was the second big government change in recent weeks by Yanukovich, whose Regions Party faces a tough fight against a possibly united opposition in a parliamentary election next October.

Late last month he sacked Fedir Yarosenko as finance minister, replacing him with former state security chief Valery Khoroshkovsky.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122085/ Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:04:04 +0200
Salamatin served as director general of the Ukroboronprom state concern and was dismissed on Wednesday from this post under a separate presidential decree.

Yezhel was appointed Ukraine's defense minister on March 11, 2010.

Salamatin was born in Karaganda (Kazakhstan) in 1965. In 1991-1999, he lived and worked in Moscow.

He has lived in Ukraine since April 1999. He was twice elected as a Ukrainian MP from the Regions Party (2006-2011).

In the Verkhovna Rada, Salamatin served as first deputy head of the parliamentary committee on science and education and as a member of the budget committee.

In June 2010, Yanukovych signed a decree appointing Salamatin as director general of Ukraine's state arms exporter Ukrspecexport, and on January 4, 2011, he was appointed director general of the newly created Ukroboronprom state concern.

From Aug. 20, 2001 to April 25, 2003, Yezhel was the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Navy. On Oct. 6, 2003, he was dismissed from military service for health reasons.

From Feb. 4, 2008 to March 11, 2010, he served as chief inspector of the Main Inspectorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.

Yezhel held the post of Ukraine's defense minister from March 11, 2010 to Feb. 8, 2012.


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Tymoshenko thanked Sikorski for his support and informed him about the health and conditions of her mother's detention in the penal colony.

Tymoshenko and Sikorski also spoke about parliamentary elections in Ukraine this year.

"The opposition and its leaders should participate in the elections on a competitive basis, and without that Ukraine will not be able to become a member of the European family," Sikorski said.



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Earlier Zabzaliuk said that he had never left the BYT-Batkivschyna faction, and his formal transfer to the Reforms for Future deputy's group was planned by the leadership of his faction to discover how much they pay MPs in the group.

"They offer $500,000 for a transfer [to the parliamentary group], and then they pay a monthly salary of $20,000-25,000, and if someone proposes a fake initiative to the Batkivschyna Party they pay him additional funds. At the end of the cadence they pay additional $500,000, probably, to improve the life today," he said.

The Reform for Future group rebuffed Zabzaliuk's statement about bribery.

"I would like to explain. Two months ago Roman Zabzaliuk addressed the group's leader [Ihor Rybakov] tête-à-tête and said that he was suffering a disease. He showed documents confirming that he was suffering a very serious disease... as far as I remember, he was asked a question: you are a member of another faction, why don't you settle the problem with them? I don't know how he explained that. But they never assisted him," according to the deputy leader of the Reforms for Future group, Volodymyr Kapliyenko.

He added that the group had raised some $100,000 for Zabzaliuk to undergo surgery in Israel.



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The court announced a break in its session until 10.00 on Thursday, Feb. 9.

The court rejected the request by Lutsenko and his defense lawyers to invite a dozen witnesses, satisfying only a petition to invite Halyna Ilchuk, an expert from the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensic Examinations.]]> http://www.kyivpost.com/news/politics/detail/122050/ Politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:12:39 +0200
The ex-premier was sentenced to seven years in prison under Article 365 of the Criminal Code on abuse of office charges for signing gas contracts with Russia in 2009.

A Ukrainian law decriminalizing a number of articles of the Criminal Code concerning economic crimes came into force on Jan. 17, 2012.

The law excluded criminal liability for committing certain unlawful actions, in particular, for the concealment of currency earnings.

At the same time, the parliamentary majority rejected an opposition initiative to decriminalize the article under which Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in jail.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych to consider all possible means to release former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and other members of the former government and also to enable them to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

PACE made this appeal in the resolution on the functioning of democratic institutions in Ukraine adopted on Jan. 26.

The assembly also called on the Ukrainian authorities "to promptly change these two articles [under which Tymoshenko was convicted], in line with the standards of the Council of Europe" and to drop charges against former government officials.




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According to him, doctors are likely to come to Ukraine on Monday, but this date is not firm yet. "At present, none of them have arrived in Ukraine - they will all come together," the source added.

Earlier, President Viktor Yanukovych has said at a press conference after meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Munich, that Ukraine will be grateful for the assistance of foreign doctors in conducting a medical examination and treatment of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Tymoshenko, 51, a twice-serving former prime minister, was jailed in October for seven years on a charge of abuse of office linked to a 2009 gas supply deal with Russia which she brokered while in power.

The Yanukovych leadership says the deal left the country with an exorbitant price for gas which is now a millstone on the Ukrainian economy.

The United States and the European Union support the view of the political opposition that her trial was an example of selective justice and politically motivated.]]>