Tymoshenko keeps spending nights in hall, suffering sharper back pains, says ex-premier's daughter

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is continuing her civil disobedience campaign, the ex-premier's daughter Yevhenia Tymoshenko has said.

"None of her legal demands were satisfied, nothing has changed, and that's why she's continuing her protest. She won't stop until all of her demands are fulfilled," Tymoshenko told journalists following a meeting with her mother at Kharkiv-based central Clinical Hospital No. 5.

She confirmed that the ex-premier has started undergoing medical procedures "but in small amounts."

Tymoshenko added that the ex-premier keeps staying in the hall and sleeps in the sitting position.

"Of course, this affects her back very much, she is suffering sharper back pains," she said.

Tymoshenko also said that German doctors from the German Charite Clinic are to come to Ukraine soon. She did not specify the exact date of their arrival.

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 go 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.

On January 15, Tymoshenko again started undergoing medical procedures.