
"Julia, we are with you!" And the “shame of Kireev”-the chanting of these slogans, supporters of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko met the decision of Judge Rodion Kireev on the arrest of the leader of the opposition. The deputies of the BET faction tried to break into the convoy room, but the fighters of the Berkut special forces blocked access to them. A spontaneous rally immediately began at the building of the Pechersk court, several hundred people blocked the central street of Kyiv - Khreshchatyk. Supporters of Tymoshenko, People's Deputies and journalists tried to slow down the movement of the car carrier, into which they plunged the former head of government, which led to new skirmishes with special forces. So on August 5, the 19th meeting of the court ended, at which Yulia Tymoshenko was accused of violations when concluding a gas contract with Russia in 2009. Tymoshenko’s arrest was preceded by a speech in the court of the current Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, who called those agreements “the betrayal of citizens of Ukraine”. Tymoshenko said in response: “I did not understand anything from what Azarov said. Not a single word. I don't understand Russian. " Which overwhelmed the bowl of patience of Judge Kireev. The only assignment that Tymoshenko made was allowed to leave the courtroom and sit in the car carrier without handcuffs, but the phone from which she made on Twitter was selected immediately. Valery Kalnysh, deputy editor-in-chief of the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper, told The New Times that Tymoshenko played emotions throughout the process and did not believe that she would dare to arrest her. “She constantly watered the judge with mud on Twitter, and the“ puppet ”was the most harmless characteristic. She refused to get up when the judge appeared. Her supporters arranged clashes in the meeting room, and she climbed onto the bench and recorded it on a mobile phone, ”the journalist says. At the previous meeting, on July 27, the prosecutor already demanded that Tymoshenko change the measure of restraint for arrest, but then the judge found that procedural actions had not yet been exhausted for the normal conduct of the process. Even then, Tymoshenko said: “The reprisal is so. Better to shoot right away. ” According to the ex-Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych gave the court an unspoken instruction to put the indictment verdict until August 24, when the Independence Day of Ukraine is celebrated. At the same time, immediately after the arrest, the source of Focus magazine in the Higher Council of Justice of Ukraine said that Tymoshenko would be a conviction and this would happen until September 6. The ex-Prime Minister threatens up to 5 years in prison.
Kyiv journalists note that all the loud arrests during the reign of Viktor Yanukovych take place in the summer when most citizens are traveling and the risk of street performances is minimal. Moreover, if the political opponent of the current president is planted, he does not even have a chance to go out to the court’s decision for health reasons: “The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Lutsenko has been sitting since December, although he has found hepatitis. The ex-Minister of Defense Ivashchenko has sick kidneys, radiculitis, but he is not released. The record holder is so far - the former head of the state customs of Makarenko, he served a year before the court decision, but in the end he was released. " It seems that Tymoshenko has no chances to release in the near future, and when she was issued an indictment verdict, the process of “Putinization” of Ukraine can be considered completed.
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