The defense counsel for jailed former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said that that the testimony by witnesses concerning the Jan. 6 incident when the ex-premier was unconscious for two hours in Kachanivska prison are fake.
"We know for certain that the witnesses’ statements relating to the incident in Kachanivska prison on Jan. 6, when Yulia Volodymyrivna lost consciousness, have been falsified," Vlasenko said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
He stressed that this was reliable information. "I have proof," the lawyer said.
Vlasenko also said that Tymoshenko refused to meet with representative of the Ukrainian Health Ministry and requested that such specialists not be sent to her in future.
As reported, on Jan. 10, first deputy head of the Batkivschyna Party Oleksandr Turchynov said that Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was unconscious for over two hours in Kachanivska penal colony in Kharkiv, after she was given unknown medicines. He added that Tymoshenko had been given drugs to treat an acute viral infection.
Head of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Lisitskov said that Tymoshenko did not faint, but simply felt dizzy. According to him, after prison medical staff attended to her, the ex-premier recovered.
