Lawmakers from the Batkivschyna faction have arrived in Kharkiv to visit Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital No.5, where former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing treatment.

A source close to the Batkivschyna party told Interfax-Ukraine that MPs Arsen Avakov, Mykola Katerynchuk, Andriy Shevchenko, Oleksandr Bryhynets and others were expected to visit the hospital.

More law enforcers are watching outside the hospital than usual, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

At 1210, a defense counsel of the ex-premier, MP Serhiy Vlasenko, entered the territory of the hospital. He neither confirmed nor denied the information about the lawmakers' visit to Tymoshenko.

On Monday morning MP Bryhynets wrote on his Facebook page that together with other MPs they were immediately leaving for Kharkiv. He made it clear that the trip was related to Tymoshenko.

On January 8, Tymoshenko declared a campaign of civil disobedience and announced this in an open letter that was read aloud by her defense lawyer Vlasenko. The former prime minister said that she refused to recognize the prosecutors and investigators involved in her case and was not going to talk to them anymore. Tymoshenko also said she would not come to court voluntarily, and should they try to bring her to court by force, she would offer every resistance she could. The ex-premier also refused to go back to her hospital ward unless video surveillance and the guard are removed.

Tymoshenko's defense lawyer Oleksandr Plakhotniuk said that the ex-premier kept spending nights in the hall of the hospital and had been refusing to be searched for three days.