Yulia Tymoshenko agrees to treatment in Ukraine hospital

“This will be a mutual step that helps resolve the issue,” Dr
Einhaeupl said.

Mrs Tymoshenko has complained of debilitating pain since being jailed for
seven years in October on controversial charges that EU leaders view as
being part of the current government’s vendetta against its old foe.

But she had also expressed fears of being infected by Ukrainian doctors
following the contamination in hospital of a fellow jailed cabinet member
and has sought treatment in a German clinic she trusts.

Ukraine has refused to let her out of the country and the resulting row has
threatened to lead to an EU boycott of football games Ukraine begins
co-hosting with Poland on June 8.

Tensions with Europe threatened to rise still further when prosecutors refused
to launch criminal proceedings over Tymoshenko’s alleged beating and said
her bruising probably came from her bumping into something instead.

“There is no reason to believe that she was punched,” Prosecutor
General Viktor Pshonka told a press briefing.

“The evidence proves that what is written in her statement is not true.”

Tymoshenko claimed to have been manhandled by guards who were moving her to
the very clinic she agreed to visit on Friday.

She had been on a hunger strike since the April 20 incident but the German
doctor gave no immediate indication about her health.

The presidents of over half a dozen EU nations had already pulled out of a
planned summit in Yalta while the European Union has decided to keep all its
commissioners from attending the games Ukraine begins co-hosting with Poland
on June 8.

France called on Ukrainian leaders to “respect their commitments in terms
of fundamental freedoms” and address the situation “in the next
few weeks.”

Ukraine fired back with a shocking editorial in the main pro-government daily
that underscored the high emotions running on the eve of the most important
event it has hosted since the Soviet era.

“Germany again wants to dictate its will over Europe,” said the
editorial in Segodnya.

“They have taken off their masks and it really is the case that the
Berlin of 2012 is in no way different from the Berlin of the 1940s.”

The paper also clearly compared the actions of modern Germany to those of Nazi
Germany under Adolf Hitler.

“In 1941, the German administration forced Ukrainian girls, naked, into
goods wagons bound for Germany. In the 21st century, German customs
officials strip Ukrainian workers naked and take all their things away,”
it charged.

“Only the methods have changed.”

Source: AFP

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