Yevhenia Tymoshenko seeks meeting with her mother at hospital, says penitentiary service

The daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Eugenia, caused a kerfuffle in the intensive care unit, located on the same floor as Tymoshenko's ward, demanding a meeting with her mother, the Ukrainian State Penitentiary Service said in a press release on Monday.

Tymoshenko, who was sentenced to seven years for abuse of power in Ukraine, refused to see her daughter, it said.

Before leaving the clinic, Yevhenia Tymoshenko started to yell outside the hospital's guarded section, asking her mother to see her, the service said.

"She then began banging on the door, causing a commotion in the intensive care unit of this hospital. After it, at doctors' insistence, she stopped making noise and left the clinic," the service said.

Yevhenia, for her part, said that she was not able to see her mother at the hospital, but could only hear her voice.

"I was unable to see her. I only heard her voice. She told me that she was in a very serious condition, could not move and was suffering from terrible back pain. She cannot go to another room for investigative measures [to meet with her defense lawyers]," Yevhenia told journalists.