KIEV, Aug. 16 – The trial of former Prime Minister and Batkivschyna Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko and the international community's reaction to it have not worsened the country's relations with European states, according to Oleh Voloshyn, director of the Foreign Ministry's Information Policy Department.

"[The situation around Tymoshenko] has not worsened relations. It [has only] put on the agenda of these relations a question that we would not like to see there," he said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.