The lawyer of former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was doused with brilliant green at the entrance to the Kyiv courtroom before a hearing on the case of violations of the law at the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) corporation. The Segodnya newspaper reported this on Friday, December 6.

Both young men who attacked Vlasenko were detained. They did not have any documents with them. Now the police are establishing their identity and how they managed to enter the court without passports. The publication explains that it is impossible to legally enter the courthouse without documents.

The report notes that lawyer Sergei Vlasenko did not require medical assistance, since he was wearing glasses and the brilliant green did not get into his eyes. According to the Interfax agency , Tymoshenko's defense demanded that a criminal case be opened into the incident, and the former prime minister's political opponents from the Party of Regions accused the lawyers of staging the attack.

The hearing itself did not take place on Friday because Tymoshenko herself was not brought to court. The court noted that the law does not allow hearings on a criminal case in the absence of the accused, and therefore the hearing was decided to be postponed until December 27. At the same time, as LIGABusinessInform reports, the absence of the former prime minister in court was due to her own refusal to personally participate in the hearings.

Previously, Tymoshenko’s supporters, including Vlasenko, had already been doused with brilliant green several times and also thrown with feces. In April 2013, after a meeting on the UESU case, unknown persons stained the lawyer’s car with green paint.

Tymoshenko is accused of tax evasion in excess of a million dollars, organizing the theft of public funds and forgery. She refuses to attend the trial, citing poor health. Her lawyer Sergei Vlasenko is also under investigation. He is suspected of beating his ex-wife.

Defender Tymoshenko was doused with brilliant green again