Pro-Russian insurgents have taken a Swedish citizen captive, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council representative Andriy Lysenko said at a briefing in Kyiv on Monday.

The incident occurred last Sunday, Lysenko said. According to the information of the National Security and Defense Council, the Swede was captured at a checkpoint near Perevalsk in Luhansk region.

He is held in Horlivka now, Lysenko said.

Other details of the incident are not given for now.