Former Interior Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, who has been pardoned by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and released from prison, will undergo surgery at the Kyiv-based Oberig Clinic on April 16.

"Yuriy Vitaliyovych [Lutsenko] is at the clinic now. They are planning to operate on him tomorrow," People's Self-Defense Party's spokeswoman Larysa Sarhan told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter.

She said that Lutsenko has been hospitalized since the beginning of last week.

At the same time, Sarhan did not specify what kind of surgery Lutsenko would undergo.

As reported, on April 5, 2013 Verkhovna Rada's Commissioner for Human Rights Valeria Lutkovska asked Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to pardon Lutsenko because of his state of health and the fact that the ex-minister had served more than half of his prison term.

On April 7, Yanukovych signed a decree pardoning several convicts, including Lutsenko. The ex-minister was released on the same day.

On April 9, the ex-minister was examined at the Oberig Clinic and the doctors confirmed the necessity to operate on him again. The surgery was earlier scheduled for late February 2013.