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The deputies of the BYT-Batkivschyna faction blocked the presidium and rostrum of the Ukrainian parliament before its evening session on Thursday.

Previously, the BYT deputies demanded that a temporary commission be created to investigate the incident with former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in the Kachanivska penal colony on Jan. 6, and that Canadian doctors be allowed to examine Tymoshenko.