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Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko's defense lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, has said he has informed the investigator in the criminal case on gas contracts against the former premier that Tymoshenko will not be available for questioning for a week.

"Today I informed the investigator for particularly important cases, [Oleksandr] Nechvohlod, that because of Tymoshenko’s state of health she is not able to participate in investigative actions and I officially handed over a relevant medical reference to him," Vlasenko said at a briefing in the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday.

Vlasenko earlier said that Tymoshenko did not come for questioning at the Prosecutor General’s Office on Thursday because she was suffering from a cold.