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.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s top energy and coal industry ministry officials will be on 24-hour duty for the next two weeks as a spell of extremely cold weather continues to drain the country’s energy resources.

KIEV, Jan. 30 — Ukraine’s opposition parties across the board on Monday rejected a proposal from President Viktor Yanukovych to join a body that charged with drafting - and approving - the country’s next constitution.

KIEV, Jan. 30 – Two launches of the Ukrainian-Russian Dnepr rocket from the Yasny launch base (Orenburg region, Russia) are scheduled for 2012, Yuriy Alekseyev, head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine told journalists on Friday.

KIEV, Jan. 30 - Deputy Social Policy Minister Serhiy Tyhypko has reiterated that national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s plans not to import more than 27 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – Ukraine hasn’t yet implemented all agreed reforms to qualify for the next installment of lending from the International Monetary Fund, Deputy Prime Minister Serhiy Tyhypko said.

KIEV, Jan. 27 - Prosecutors said Thursday they had opened a new criminal probe against Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko on suspicion of abusing power as the prime minister in 2009.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – President Viktor Yanukovych, who leads Ukraine’s delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, is not expected to meet key world leaders and will mostly focus on multilateral events.

KIEV, Jan. 27 – The Central District Court of Simferopol has ordered Anatoliy Hrytsenko, a former speaker of the Crimean parliament and a deputy of the current Crimean Supreme Council from the Regions Party, to be taken into custody.

KIEV, Jan. 28 - A pre-trial investigation has estimated the cost of state controlled assets allegedly misappropriated by former Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and another three former ministry officials at more than UAH 970,000.