Former Ukrainian Premier and Leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko has stated again that she is not planning to leave Ukraine.
"Tomorrow I will be at court. I know that they expect that after the prosecutor’s petition on my detention today I would leave Ukraine. I want to state in public: I will not leave my country. We will do everything possible to make Yanukovych and his team leave the country," Tymoshenko said at a briefing outside Pechersky District Court of Kyiv on Wednesday.
"I think in such a way they [the prosecution] are testing me and checking whether I’m afraid of the mafia," the former premier said.
She described the actions of Judge Rodion Kireyev as illegal, as the hearing was held without her having a defense lawyer.
According to Tymoshenko, on Thursday she will petition for the admission of her defense lawyers to the hearing.
At the same time, she did not say which lawyers she would bring to the trial.
