Ukrainian parliamentarians have submitted to the presidential administration a demand for the release of Yulia Tymoshenko, former prime minister of Ukraine and leader of the Batkivschyna Party. The document has been signed by 23,000 people.
A delegation comprising Yuriy Odarchenko and Andriy Pavlovsky, who represent the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc in the parliament, has gone to the presidential administration from the tent city located near Kyiv’s Pechersky District Court, where the Tymoshenko case is being tried.
The petition has been registered in the presidential administration. Presidential administration officials told the parliamentarians that citizens’ inquiries are considered and communicated to the president within ten days.
The parliamentarians have decided to initiate an address to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych calling for Tymoshenko’s release from prison.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office is accusing Tymoshenko of exceeding her powers when signing the gas supply contracts with Russia in 2009, which are believed to have caused the state losses in an amount of over UAH 1.5 billion.
The trial of the gas supply case began on June 24. On August 5, Tymoshenko was arrested in the courtroom.
