Kozhemiakin: Tymoshenko already has New Year toys in hospital, but she cannot get New Year tree

16:13, 28.12.2012 1 min read

The companions and relatives of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko cannot pass a New Year tree to her, a defense lawyer for the ex-premier, Andriy Kozhemiakin, has said.

"We have not currently passed the New Year tree, but we will make sure that Yulia Volodymyrivna [Tymoshenko] gets the tree, and she already has the toys," he told reporters on Thursday after meeting with the former prime minister in Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv.

He also expressed regret that Tymoshenko would see in the second New Year behind bars.

"It's very disappointing. Today, while talking to Yulia Volodymyrivna, I told her that our team has not really done everything in the outgoing year to get her freed," Kozhemiakin said.

The Kharkiv regional branch of the Batkivschyna Party said that it had passed unbreakable plastic toys to Tymoshenko, but could not pass an artificial New Year tree, which the prison service refused to accept.