KIEV, July 21 – Former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko owes over $405 million to Russian companies and the Russian Defense Ministry, First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin said.

"Yulia Volodymyrivna Tymoshenko had a personal debt to Russian gas companies and the Russian Defense Ministry. The debt was accumulated in the period when Tymoshenko led the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU)," he said at a press briefing on Thursday.

Kuzmin said that the UESU's debt to Russian structures exceeded $405 million.