KHARKIV, Dec. 18 – The court hearing of a case against former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko concerning financial abuse within the United Energy Systems of Ukraine Corporation has been adjourned until January 18.

"The court announces a break in the hearing until 1600 on January 18," the presiding judge in the trial on the case, Kostiantyn Sadovsky, announced in Kharkiv on Tuesday.

During the court hearing, the state prosecutor said that it was impossible to hear the case in the absence of the defendant.