Ukraine moves Tymoshenko to hospital from jail

UKRAINE: Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was on Wednesday moved from her prison to a hospital for treatment by a team including a German doctor, the prisons service said.

The authorities are hoping that Tymoshenko's transfer to a hospital outside the prison will defuse a growing diplomatic crisis over her treatment that threatens to overshadow Ukraine's co-hosting of the Euro 2012 football.

“Tymoshenko was transferred from her penal colony to hospital for a course of treatment recommended by an international medical commission,” the prisons service said in a statement. AFP