New prisoners were moved into the cell of ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko , located in the Kachanovskaya colony in Kharkov. This was reported by Ukrainian News with reference to the Penitentiary Service of Ukraine.

The former head of government now has two cellmates. One of them is serving a sentence for making counterfeit money, the other is serving a sentence for embezzling someone else's property.

Tymoshenko’s former neighbor, Yulia Abaplova, has been moved to another room.

The day before, on April 24, the ex-prime minister said that her cellmate Yulia Abaplova was forced to give some kind of compromising interview (concerning Tymoshenko). According to Tymoshenko, the colony administration received instructions to prepare the interview from the presidential administration.

According to the ex-prime minister, at first Abaplova refused to participate in this, but in the end she “broke.” “She was threatened with imprisonment for her son and transfer to inhumane conditions of serving his sentence... She returned to her cell at 1 am, crying and tortured,” Tymoshenko said. According to the former head of government, the interview prepared for the Inter and First National channels was planned to be broadcast on April 24. The former prime minister said that there is “not a word of truth” in this material.

These TV channels, as reported by Ukrayinska Pravda , later issued a refutation, saying that such an interview was not recorded.

The penitentiary service claims that Abaplova herself asked to be transferred to another room.

Yulia Tymoshenko was convicted in October 2011 on charges of abuse of power when concluding gas agreements with Russia. She was sentenced to seven years in prison. Other criminal cases were also initiated against Tymoshenko. She herself denies all accusations, saying that the authorities are persecuting her for political reasons.

New cellmates were assigned to Tymoshenko