Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko prepared for a trip to Kyiv and waited for prison service employees to come for her at 04:00, but they never came and did not warn her about the cancellation of her transportation, the ex-premier's daughter, Yevhenia Tymoshenko, has said after a meeting with her mother on Friday.
“Yesterday, at around 22:00, Head of the Kachanivska Colony Ihor Kolpaschykov and doctor Stetsiura came to my mother and told her that on February 15 at 0500 she would be transported to Kyiv to attend a court hearing and asked her to pack things necessary for her for one day. They did not mention any signatures. My mother did not sign any documents. They just presented her with a fait and informed her about the time of her transportation,” reads a posting on the Web site of the Batkivschyna Party quoting Yevhenia Tymoshenko.
According to her, the ex-premier took the necessary things and at 0400 she was ready for the trip, but “no one came for her.”
Yevhenia Tymoshenko said she was indignant at the fact that no one informed her mother about the cancellation of her transportation to court.
“We don’t know for what reason this happened, why she was not even informed about the cancellation of the trip, although she was ready to go,” she said.
She also said that on Feb. 14 Tymoshenko wrote a request demanding that she not be deprived of the right to a defense and that she be allowed to attend the court hearing during which witness Serhiy Zaitsev was to be interrogated on the criminal case on the murder of the former Ukrainian parliamentarian, Yevhen Scherban.
