Acting Minister of Health of Ukraine Ulyana Suprun confirmed that Elena Zaitseva, who was driving a car that drove a group of people on the sidewalk in Kharkov, was drugged during an accident.

She wrote about this in Facebook.

According to her, this was confirmed by the Center for Mental Health and Monitoring of Drugs and Alcohol of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

She noted that the center of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine prepared such a conclusion for the appeal of the lawyer of the victims. "During the months of the case, the court did not manage to get an exhaustive answer to the question - Zaitseva used drugs when she got behind the wheel and there was an accident," said Suprun.

So, the doctor-narcologist, who examined Zaitsev after the attack on pedestrians and led the selection of necessary biological samples, disappeared. The laboratory doctor who analyzed the biological samples in the courtroom could not give an unambiguous answer to the question of the presence of drugs in the body Zaitseva.

However, the conclusion of the Center for Mental Health and Monitoring of Drugs and Alcohol testifies: Zaitseva was on October 18, 2017, in a state caused by the use of narcotic or other intoxicating substances.

"I hope that all the circumstances of the accident will be taken into account and the court will make fair conclusions," noted the acting minister.

Earlier, the lawyer of victims in the Kharkov road accident Larisa Matveeva reported that Zaitseva was driving a car under drugs. In the analyzes of Zaitseva, codeine and phenobarbital. The court attached a ministerial opinion to the case.