The Ukrainian government should not submit an appeal against the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on a complaint filed by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, since the appeal will be unfounded, and Tymoshenko's defense team will unlikely appeal against the non-establishment by the ECHR of the cases of torture of the ex-premier, her representative at the ECHR, Valentyna Telychenko, has said.

"I think that in the next three months [the time for filing an appeal and during this time the ECHR decision is not considered to be in force] all will very carefully look at the government's actions and statements by Justice Ministry officials whether the government or Tymoshenko will file an appeal," she said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

She also added: "It would be a good practice for the government not to challenge this decision. Let them think whether it would be good for the Ukrainian government to once again lose the appeal. Who needs it?"

Telychenko said that if the Cabinet of Ministers files an appeal, it will be unfounded and the ECHR will reject it.

"I think that the appeal of the Ukrainian government... will also be unfounded in the Tymoshenko case, as in the case of [former Interior Minister] Yuriy Lutsenko," she said.

In this context, she said: "If our government wants to behave with dignity, it is not necessary to use all levers to … try to prove to Europe that there were no political motives... but to take the ECHR decision for granted."

While commenting on the ECHR's decision that there was no torture of Tymoshenko, Telychenko said that the former prime minister was in "somewhat better conditions than ordinary prisoners."

"Since the Ukrainian government still hospitalized her, although with delay, since German doctors were allowed to treat her and medical services were provided in the amount determined by German doctors, the court for a long time discussed and argued about these circumstances and with four votes for and three votes against ruled to believe that all these were not appropriate conditions for the person arrested, but they still cannot be called torture," she said.

In this context, Telychenko said that it was not important for the ex-premier to appeal this point of the decision, since the court established such key violations as the unlawfulness of her arrest and political motives behind it.