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The special services are planning an operation to take former Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko from Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv, where she is undergoing treatment, back to the Kachanivska penal colony, the ex-premier's defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said.

“They are preparing to discharge Yulia Volodymyrivna from hospital. The special services are planning various special operations to return Yulia Tymoshenko to the Kachanivska prison. They are doing this with the only aim – to transport the person that has not received proper medical treatment back to the colony and take her every day to hearings of the invented UESU case, the same as they did it in Kyiv,” the lawyer told journalists on Friday.

According to Vlasenko, such actions are aimed at pronouncing another conviction of Tymoshenko by August 28, when the ex-premier’s appeal against the conviction in the gas case will be considered by the European Court of Human Rights.

Vlasenko recalled that earlier the chief of Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, Mykhailo Afanasyev, stated that the ex-premier could be discharged under certain circumstances.

The defense lawyer also said that German Charite Clinic doctor Lutz Harms underwent psychological pressure during his recent visit to Kharkiv.

“Their task is to remove the German doctors from the process of treatment, as they are the only doctors that cannot be put under direct administrative pressure by the authorities. They will keep oppressing them in the same way they did during the two last days of Doctor Harms’ visit,” Vlasenko said.