Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has stopped her hunger strike in response to a plea from the Euromaidan rally participants, the ex-premier's daughter Yevhenia Tymoshenko said on Friday following a meeting with her mother.
“She has stopped her hunger strike at the Euromaidan’s request. The
Euromaidan participants handed over a petition to me asking her to stop
her hunger strike and it was signed by hundreds of people. They asked
her to save her life, her health, so that she can stay with there and
support them, as they need her. When I gave it to her today, she said
that she will stop her hunger strike at people’s request, because she
went on hunger strike to support them,” she told journalists outside
Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv, where Tymoshenko is
undergoing medical treatment.
Tymoshenko added that her mother’s state of health could be described as critical.
“I can say that my mother’s state of health is critical, she is very
weak, she stays in bed most of the time, and we think this is because it
was her third hunger strike in such a short period… I am very grateful
to her for stopping her hunger strike, because we as her family were
really worried about her,” Tymoshenko said.
When asked if Tymoshenko’s defense team and family were planning to
ask German doctors from the Charite Clinic to visit the ex-premier, her
defense counsel Serhiy Vlasenko said that the issue was being discussed.
