Tymoshenko's daughter meets with U.S. Senator McCain

15:30, 15.12.2013 1 min read

The daughter of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, Yevhenia, on Sunday morning had a meeting with U.S. Senator John McCain, the Batkivschyna party's press service reported.

They discussed aspects of the current situation in Ukraine and ways out of it.

Yevhenia Tymoshenko told the senator how her mother sees desirable ways out and mechanisms of a peaceful solution to the political crisis.

The party service says the senator raised the subject of possible personal sanctions against top officials involved in the persecution and confinement of Yulia Tymoshenko and also to the beating and repeated attempts to disperse protesters during the Euromaidan rally on Kyiv's Independence Square.

Republican McCain said that his colleague Senator Chris Murphy, Democrat, would be coming to Ukraine on Sunday and stressed that U.S. Democratic and Republican Parties see eye-to-eye on the situation in Ukraine.

We are on the side of the people of Ukraine, he said.

The meeting was also attended by U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt and Tymoshenko's lawyer Serhiy Vlasenko.