Ukraine opposition leader Tymoshenko to go free - daughter


KIEV (Reuters) - Jailed Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko will soon be released in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv, where she is being treated in hospital, her daughter signalled on Saturday.

Yevgenia Tymoshenko said she was going to Kharkiv to meet her mother, who was jailed in 2011 for seven years for abuse of office linked to a gas deal and is a bitter rival of President Viktor Yanukovich.

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