Nikolay Siryi and Aleksandr Plakhotnyuk

Defenders of Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko Nikolay Siryi, foreground, and Aleksandr Plakhotnyuk answer the questions of the journalists after a court sitting near the building of Pechersk district court, on Monday, July 25, 2011. About 20 soldiers of Special Forces "Grifon" with the use of force took out people's deputy from BYuT Yuriy Prokopchuk from the courtroom of Kiev Pechersk District Court. It happened immediately after a judge of Pechersk district court Rodion Kireyev announced a decision to remove Prokopchuk for contempt of court. Photo by Aleksandr Prokopenko / POOL / UNIAN