Over 300 Ukrainians held captive in Donbas, Russia - Kyiv

11:37, 08.06.2015 1 min read

Over 300 Ukrainian citizens are being held captive by militantsin Donbas, envoy of the Ukrainian president, representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group promoting peace in Donbas Iryna Heraschenko has said.

"The Ukrainian Security Service has updated the list of Ukrainian hostages held by the terrorists and on the Russian territory. Their number exceeds 300. Alas, over 1,200 persons are missing," Heraschenko said at a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Inter-Parliamentary Council in Kyiv on Monday.