Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was moved from the prison where she is serving a seven-year sentence to a hospital on Wednesday, the state penitentiary service said.
Tymoshenko arrived willingly, made no complaints and issued no statements, the service added.
Tymoshenko’s daughter said on Tuesday her mother would be moved to hospital to be treated by a German doctor.
Two weeks ago, photos appeared showing Tymoshenko with bruises on her body, which she claims were inflicted by prison guards as they were forcibly transferring her to a hospital. Tymoshenko, who is suffering from severe back pain and has been diagnosed with a herniated spinal disc, is being held at a penal colony in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov.
EU leaders have threatened to boycott Euro 2012 football matches in Ukraine next month over Tymoshenko’s alleged mistreatment.
Ukrainian prosecutors have denied the allegations, saying the bruises were the result of Tymoshenko's "pushing against blunt objects."
Tymoshenko, a former prime minister and heroine of Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution, was jailed for seven years in October last year for abuse of office in what Western governments said was a politically motivated trial. She faces another trial on embezzlement charges.
She denies wrongdoing and says she is being persecuted by President Viktor Yanukovych, who defeated her in the 2010 presidential election.
