The chief of Penal Colony No. 54 in Kharkiv has promised opposition lawmakers that video cameras will be removed and only remain in place in the corridor of the hospital, where ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is undergoing medical treatment.

"We have met today with the chief of the prison at last. He promised to keep the cameras only in the corridors and said that cameras will be removed from the room for medical procedures. I understand the cameras will be taken out of Tymoshenko's ward, where she sleeps and eats, and from the bathroom and toilet room," lawmaker Andriy Pavlovsky of the Batkivschyna party told an Interfax correspondent on Tuesday.

The chief of the prison also promised to fulfill Tymoshenko's other demands, including the demand for attaching female guards to her ward.

Pavlovsky said parliamentary deputies will not be able to inspect Tymoshenko's living conditions as she will be visited by her daughter Yevhenia.

The State Penitentiary Service has said on many occasions that video observation over the ex-prime minister strictly complied with the law, that cameras were installed only in her ward and in the corridor, and that neither open, nor spy cameras were installed either in the shower room, or in the room for medical procedures. It also said that only women operate the monitors where video footage is displayed, and that only female personnel were attached to Tymoshenko's ward.