KIEV, October 4 - RAPSI. On October 11 the Kiev Economic Court of Appeals will resume its hearing of the appeals filed by the Ukrainian Cabinet, State Treasury and the United Energy Systems of Ukraine (UESU) against the trial court award forcing the Ukrainian government to pay the UESU debt to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The matter has been postponed to allow the parties time to review additional documents submitted during Thursday's hearing.

On September 19 the Kiev Economic Court partially ruled for the Defense Ministry's suit, obligating the Ukrainian government to pay more than 3.2 million hryvnas ($390 million) in UESU debt which arose in the 1990s, when the corporation was headed by Yulia Tymoshenko. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko, who is now serving time in the United States for money laundering, provided the Russian Defense Ministry with written guarantees that the debt would be paid.

In late March, a case against Tymoshenko was filed with Kharkiv's Kievsky District Court with regard to her activity at UESU. She has been accused of misappropriation of funds.

Tymoshenko was sentenced in October 2011 to seven years in prison for abuse of power based on a 2009 gas contract she signed with Russia. She is serving her sentence at Kharkiv women's prison. She has been receiving treatment at a Kharkiv hospital since May 2012 when she was diagnosed with a spinal disc herniation.

The Ukrainian government challenged the Kiev Economic Court's award on September 25.