SBU says 140 captives, 741 persons missing in Donbas – humanitarian subgroup's envoy

13:45, 09.12.2015 1 min read

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has said that 140 military men and civilians are on its list of captives, and whereabouts of just 50 of them is known, Ukrainian representative to the humanitarian subgroup Iryna Heraschenko (Petro Poroshenko bloc) said.

"One more time Ukraine raised an issue of immediate release of the captives in the lists processed and refreshed by the SBU, today together there are 140 military men and civilians. We also have information about the whereabouts of nearly 50 prisoners, others to be searched…At least half out of 50 persons have diseases and is a difficult psychological state, with grave diagnoses, there are women and civilians among them," she wrote on Facebook on Tuesday evening.

According to the MP, an active position of Red Cross and OSCE over this issue is needed, "but not just a statement of the fact that they [missions] aren't admitted, and are concerned."

Besides, the issue of people missed was covered, according to the list their number is 741.