Ukrainian journalist Anhar Kochneva, who was held hostage by Syrian rebels, intends to come to Ukraine in a week to give a press conference for Ukrainian journalists.

"I will not return to Kyiv, but I will visit it. I cannot tell you on what day, as I don't want to give them a chance to catch me. I will give a press conference in Kyiv in about a week," Kochneva told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter on Wednesday.

According to Kochneva, as soon as she receives her passport in Kyiv she will go to Moscow where her child is.

She told the reporter that currently she is staying with her friends in Syria, and they are helping her a lot.

Asked whether she was afraid of staying in Syria after all she went through, the journalist said: "I imagine if they had shot me dead on March 10 [when Kochneva escaped from captivity] and the driver never stopped. Let's think that I have been killed. Since that day I have to use all days of my life to the maximum. I am not scared."

Kochneva said she is planning to publish her story in a book, to visit Kyiv and Moscow and give press conferences.

"I will continue doing my work. I have to draw people's attention [to the situation in Syria]," she said.

The journalist also expressed her indignation at the situation in Syria.

"This democracy looks like they're cutting living people's heads with a chainsaw, but nobody speaks about this. No one knows what is going on here," she said.

Kochneva also praised Ukrainian diplomats' work to help her.

"The diplomats helped, they're good, but the problem is that the opposite side was insane and it did not fulfill demands," she said.

As reported, Kochneva was abducted in Syria by rebels from the Free Syrian Army in October 2012. The journalist's abductors threatened to kill her if they were not paid a $50-million ransom. In January, the rebels told the journalist's relatives they had agreed to reduce the ransom to $300,000.

On March 11, Kochneva's relative said that she had escaped from captivity and that she was in Damascus. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has confirmed this information.

The Foreign Ministry of Syria has handed Kochneva to Ukraine's Embassy in Damascus. The embassy is preparing documents necessary to return the journalist back to Ukraine.