Yuriy Prodan and Vladimir Novitskiy

The former Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Prodan, in the center, and former minister of industrial policy Vladimir Novitskiy, right, before the examination in Pechersk district court on the case of Batkivshchyna Party leader and former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko in Kiev, on Wednesday, July 27 2011. During the examination in Pechersk District court that considers criminal case against the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Timoshenko on abuse of power during signing of gas agreements with Russia in 2009, ex-Minister of Fuel and Energy Yuriy Prodan said that all directive on the signing of an agreement on the transit and supply of gas between Ukraine and Russia in 2009, he perceived exclusively as the directives of former Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko. Photo by Andrey Skakodub / UNIAN