Former Ukrainian Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko has said that Judge Rodion Kireyev has been ordered to bring in a guilty verdict against her on September 15-16.
The defendant said at a court session on Thursday during the discussion of petitions from the defense to call additional witnesses that her team had received information from the Presidential Administration and the Prosecutor General’s Office as to when Kireyev is to pass a sentence on her.
"You have been tasked with pronouncing a guilty verdict on September 15-16," Tymoshenko said, while addressing the judge.
The judge, in turn, remarked to Tymoshenko that such statements were improper and said she should follow the example of yesterday’s court session.
"Yesterday everything was so good – nobody spoke disrespectfully," Kireyev said.
Tymoshenko, in turn, retorted: "There has never been anything good in this trial."
She also said she was indignant that the parties in the judicial process had not listened to her lawyers.
"The prosecutors were yawning," she said.
