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Ukrainian ex-prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko's medical treatment will last several months, said head of the German clinic Charite, Karl-Max Einhaupl.

"I think the medical treatment will last several months as the patient’s health problem has continued for more than six months now," he told the media at the Kharkiv airport on Friday.

German doctors arrived in Kharkiv on Friday to view conditions at the central clinical hospital where Tymoshenko will undergo medical treatment.