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Kyiv's Pechersky District Court is continuing a hearing on the gas case against former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Leader of the Batkivschyna Party Yulia Tymoshenko.

The questioning of witnesses for the prosecution is to continue on August 5, according to an Interfax-Ukraine reporter. In particular, former head of the Emergencies Ministry Volodymyr Shandra has been waiting for his turn to come in for questioning for two days already.

Apart from him, former Justice Minister Mykola Onischuk has been summoned as a witness.

Both officials were appointed to Tymoshenko’s government under a quota of the Our Ukraine party.