"I'm not broken, are you?"

Reporter: The VIP prison cell on the far right of this gray building was vacated earlier this week. Then here, in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center, they said that it would not be empty for a long time - the situation in Ukraine is too complicated, there are many well-known people under investigation. But the fact that the former deputy prime minister could come here again was hard to believe. Today in Kyiv, as elsewhere, they are celebrating April Fool's Day, discussing the most evil and unexpected April Fool's joke, which was revealed the day before by the Prosecutor General's Office: Yulia Tymoshenko, by her will, will still return here, to the guards, who, they say, still remember her difficult character. They remember and wait. For the second day, doctors at the Medicom private clinic, where Yulia Tymoshenko was admitted for treatment immediately after her release, have been resisting the onslaught of the authorities. The hospital corridor is increasingly reminiscent of a prison. Warden in the former Deputy Prime Minister's chamber, security outside. No one is allowed to see the patient with the surname Tymoshenko; her personal belongings, mobile phones and documents accumulated over several days, which her associates brought to her, have already been taken away. The issue of her new arrest was quickly resolved, now it’s all a matter of time - how soon Yulia will again be directly behind bars. This will happen immediately after discharge, which the doctors seem to be in no hurry to do, but they continue to put pressure on them. This man, who appeared with the policeman, is now prescribing treatment for Tymoshenko. He is one of four doctors who are allowed to enter her room, and who are afraid to say anything unnecessary. He recently talked to her and says she’s a little depressed and still sick.

Yulia Tymoshenko’s doctor: Her health is stable, well, a little, I say, a little worse in connection with this...

Correspondent: No one is allowed in, right? Is there security?

Yulia Tymoshenko's doctor: There is security. This does not affect the quality of treatment, the level of care, it does not affect it at all.

Correspondent: After the arrest, the windows of Yulia Tymoshenko's chamber are tightly curtained, no one knows what is happening there. Some representatives of the opposition are even claiming that she was secretly taken out. However, the personal photographer of the former Deputy Prime Minister was able to prove the opposite today. This photo was taken early in the morning. A rare moment that lasted only a few seconds. She is still smiling and behind bars again, although she is still on sick leave. Photographic portraits are a small weakness of the charming politician, but they tell the whole story, including this turbulent week. Monday. Late evening. Yulia Tymoshenko with flowers. So she appeared in public for the first time after a month and a half in prison. Surrounded by lawyers and members of his party, he slowly makes his way through the crowd of journalists. No statements, just words of gratitude. The prosecutor's office is calm. Later, all-Ukrainian channels will say that Yulia’s release is a breakthrough in resolving the political crisis, and the main character will be called the judge who made such a decision. Indeed, the whole country followed the process on Monday afternoon, and everyone remembers how Nikolai Zamkovenko, who recognized Tymoshenko’s arrest as illegal, made an unexpected retreat.

Nikolai Zamkovenko, judge: When making this decision, I took into account the authority of Yulia Tymoshenko in political circles and the fact that many deputies of Ukraine can give personal guarantee for her. Understand, society, the whole world will see that this is the right decision, the tension will subside, and the parties will find a compromise.

Correspondent: No one knows where Judge Zamkovenko is now. They say that he has been at his country dacha for several days and is preparing for the worst - that the authorities will take revenge on him. Until Yulia Tymoshenko's next arrest, her release was the main news. At the same time, various versions appeared as to why this happened. At this time, Yulia Tymoshenko was in the hospital and remained silent. Everyone in the prosecutor's office was still calm. Medicom Clinic, Friday, noon. The former deputy prime minister did meet with a representative of the Parliamentary Assembly, who would later say that the conversation would change her report. Until recently, it was unclear whether Yulia Tymoshenko herself would come out, who was advised to wait a little longer. She, noticeably thinner, suddenly appeared in the hospital corridor and immediately made it clear that prison life had not changed her in any way.

Yulia Tymoshenko: Leonid Danilovich and all your entourage! I want to tell you that if they released me only so that I could disappear abroad, then I repeat: I will not leave my country, neither alive nor dead. I will pack all the foreign passports that I have today and send them to the Prosecutor General’s Office, so that you all can live more peacefully.

Correspondent: For the first time, Tymoshenko publicly spoke out against Kuchma, she spoke a lot about the program for overcoming the crisis, which she wrote in prison, and about the impossibility of negotiations.

Yulia Tymoshenko: Honestly, I don’t understand what kind of negotiations the opposition can have with the authorities. The President himself has never expressed such a desire. Or rather, he does not want to talk about what the opposition demands. We demand the resignation of the entire regime, we already have a program almost ready, which we will publish next week, on how to make the opposition more effective, and convey to the nation the main thing: how Kuchma and his team work, and how this can turn out for Ukraine.

Correspondent: What happened a few hours after Tymoshenko herself disturbed the peace is already known to everyone. This night, like all previous ones, the leadership of the Batkivshchyna party is going to spend in its office. The opposition's response to the new arrest is being prepared here. They say that the fight will not end with lawsuits in the Supreme Court and lengthy statements.

Alexander Turchynov, 1st deputy leader of the Batkivshchyna party of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: We must already achieve results in the form, first of all, of the resignation of President Kuchma and the most odious people from his circle.

Correspondent: The opposition promises to begin new protests after a temporary lull next week. Now giant photographic portraits of Yulia Tymoshenko are being prepared here, with which, as before, demonstrators took to the streets in her defense. There is already a new photo and an old inscription: I’m not broken, are you? It’s just not clear yet who she’s addressing.

Vadim Takmenev, Alexey Kremenetsky and Oleg Sukhov, NTV television company, Kyiv.