MPs from the Batkivschyna faction in parliament have met with the head of the Kachanivska penal colony, Ihor Kolpaschykov, at Ukrzaliznytsia's Central Clinical Hospital No. 5, where former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing treatment.

"We had a working meeting with him, and we want to hope that there will be results. We saw some documents and some correspondence indicating that the leadership of the Kachanivska colony is currently responding to Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko's legal demands. We hope that today this response will be formalized," MP Serhiy Pashynsky told reporters in Kharkiv on Monday.

He said that the MPs had not visited the premises where the former prime minister is being held.

Pashynsky also said that Tymoshenko is still remaining in the hospital's corridors.

According to MP Andriy Shevchenko, the prison administration promised to inform Tymoshenko about the fulfillment of her demands by 1600 on Monday.

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, Serhiy 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.