European Parliament reps Cox, Kwasniewski arrive to Kharkiv hospital to visit Tymoshenko

14:11, 22.11.2013 1 min read

Observers of the European Parliament monitoring mission, former Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski and former European Parliament President Pat Cox, have arrived to the Kharkiv hospital to visit leader of the Batkivschyna party, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

The cortege with the vehicle carrying Cox and Kwasniewski accompanied by traffic police entered the hospital premises at 1325, an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent reported.

The procession was met by several dozen supporters of Tymoshenko holding Batkivschyna flags and chanting "Ukraine is the EU!" and "She is not guilty!"

On October 11, 2011, a Kyiv court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years for abuse of authority when negotiating gas deals with Russia in 2009. Tymoshenko has been serving her term at a correctional facility in Kharkiv since late December 2011.

The former prime minister was transferred from the detention facility to the Central Clinical Hospital No. 5 in Kharkiv on May 9, 2012. The course of her treatment and medicines are determined by Germans doctors from the Charite clinic in Berlin.