KIEV, Jan. 30 — The daughter of Ukraine's jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko said Monday that she has been invited to address US senators as she campaigns to secure her mother's release.

"I will deliver a speech" to the Senate's Subcommittee on European Affairs, 31-year-old Yevgeniya Carr, Tymoshenko's only child, told AFP by phone ahead of her visit to Washington.

"Our side will have an opportunity to tell the truth of how political prisoners are treated in Ukraine.
"We will spread as much as possible information about the way the country's authorities deal with their political opponents."