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Former Prime Minister of Ukraine and Leader of the Batkivschyna All-Ukrainian Association Yulia Tymoshenko on Wednesday evening left the main investigative department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, where she spent six hours.

Tymoshenko is facing charges she misused funds under the Kyoto Protocol to cover state pension funds.

"For six hours today they have been making absolutely illegal actions in the absence of a lawyer … In any other country in this case the questioning would be postponed to give an opportunity to a lawyer to attend it. Today, I’ve been deprived of the right to be assisted by a lawyer," the ex-premier told journalists after the questioning.

Tymoshenko stressed that during these six hours she was shown "a set of documents, several new charges, which are also linked to the alleged payment of pensions at the expense of environmental money."

The ex-premier called this interrogation absurd once again said that she was innocent and her only crime is that "she paid people pensions from a single treasury account."

At the same time, Tymoshenko said that she is summoned for next questioning at 12:00 on Thursday.

The former prime minister earlier said the criminal charges against her and her former government members were politically motivated.