Tymoshenko Yulia Vladimirovna - a prominent politician and former prime minister of Ukraine, was arrested on August 5, 2011 for abuse of office as prime minister.
On the same day, in the courtroom, a decision was made to arrest Yulia Tymoshenko for what, in the judge's opinion, she obstructed the interrogation with the rest of the suspects. Since then, Tymoshenko was kept in a pre-trial detention center, where in the first hours of her imprisonment she made a statement that she feared for her life and would never commit suicide voluntarily. On August 15, Yulia Tymoshenko's lawyers announced strange bruises on her body, although before that the former the prime minister was distinguished by good health and amazing capacity for work. Tymoshenko's supporters made a statement that the bruises were the result of Yulia's poisoning in prison and demanded that a personal doctor be allowed to see her so that he could take a blood test. The claim was never granted. In October 2011, the Pechorinsky District Court found Tymoshenko guilty. According to the court, the former prime minister exceeded her authority in that, after negotiations with Russia, she ordered the conclusion of agreements on gas supplies between Russia and Ukraine, which led the state to losses in the amount of one and a half million hryvnias. On the same day, the court sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison and banned from holding public office for three years after her release. On November 23, 2011, Yulia Tymoshenko was examined. In the Kiev Regional Clinical Hospital No. 1, she underwent magnetic resonance imaging, which revealed an intervertebral hernia. On November 30, the former prime minister was finally transferred to the medical unit of the pre-trial detention center. On December 1, the court considered the appeal in the case of Yulia Tymoshenko. The defendant herself, for health reasons, was unable to attend the hearing. The Court of Appeal upheld the verdict on December 8, Tymoshenko was tried right in the medical unit of the isolation ward. The trial lasted for 12 hours, during which the defendant lay on the bed and was injected with painkillers. On December 23, 2011, the court's verdict came into force, and Yulia Tymoshenko was transferred to the Kachanovsky correctional colony No. 54, which is located in Kharkiv.
