"Yulia Volodymyrivna has already been convicted and convicted people can be released on the basis of a decision made by a special commission. Although I'm not sure that will happen. Tymoshenko's illness is not on the list of illnesses which entitle people to release from prison," Blazhivsky said in an interview published in the Monday edition of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine.

At the same time, Blazhivsky confirmed that some prisoners in Ukraine are "really sick people and they can be released from under arrest by court for health reasons."

Blazhivsky also said Tymoshenko's state of health "cannot be called grave," adding that she has been offered the needed treatment.

According to earlier reports, Tymoshenko was hospitalized in the Central Clinical Hospital of the belonging to Ukrainian Railways in the early hours of April 21. She was transferred back to the Kachanivska colony, where she is serving her sentence, at around 1300 on April 22.

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