Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that ten Ukrainian soldiers have been released from captivity.

"Good news, friends, ten of our guys from the 17th tank brigade of Aidar battalion, of the 40th brigade and the 43rd brigade have been released," he wrote on Facebook on Friday.

Poroshenko released the surnames of the released soldiers: Shanidze, Bondarchuk, Semeniuk, Shvyrev, Parkhomenko, Nihmatullin, Rizayev, Kharatin, Tkachenko and Startsev.

"Soon their families will be able to hug the heroes," Poroshenko said.

Earlier, the so-called Luhansk People's Republic said that it intended to exchange ten prisoners with Ukraine.