1 Jul 2013 13:44

Tymoshenko needs urgent operation - daughter quoting German doctors

KHARKIV. July 1 (Interfax) - Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko requires urgent surgery, her daughter Yevhenia said quoting recommendations of German doctors from Charite clinic.

"In a clinical study conducted by German doctors from Charite they established that my mother's health deteriorated in relation to the recurrence of backaches cased by diskal hernia and they recommended an operation that would prevent new recurrences in the future," Yevhenia Tymoshenko told journalists outside of clinical hospital No. 5 on Monday.