The authorities do not have a single instrument to fight against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, except fake video footage, the press service of the Batkivschyna Party has reported.
"The assumption by the prosecutor shows only one thing: the presidential administration, through a puppet prosecutor’s office, will legalize fake video footage posted by the authorities on the Internet to continue using it," the party’s press service said in a statement on Tuesday, in response to a statement made by representatives of the Kyiv prosecutor’s office that a scandalous video clip with Tymoshenko was taken by a phone from a video surveillance monitor in jail.
"So, the authorities have recognized their fiasco – in the fight against the opposition leader, they can rely only on fake video footage. The pseudo-accusations being made against Yulia Tymoshenko are absolutely groundless," reads the statement.
As reported, a video appeared on the Internet, which shows a woman resembling Tymoshenko moving freely around the prison cell of the pre-trial detention center (the video is dated December 15, 2011, when the former prime minister was imprisoned in the pre-trial detention center). The Batkivschyna Party said that the video was faked. Tymoshenko’s lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, also described this video as faked.
At the same time, the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine reported that the video was real.As a result, the video was removed from the YouTube video hosting provider some time after its publication."This video has been removed as a violation of YouTube’s policy on nudity or sexual content," reads a statement, which appears during an attempt to watch the video.
