Volodymyr Zhemchuhov, who was very badly injured and lost both hands and has been held as a hostage by militants of the so called Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) since autumn 2015, on Saturday, September 16, will return from captivity, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has said.

"We have a great hope that Zhemchuhov will return home tomorrow," Poroshenko said, when opening the 13th annual meeting of the Yalta European Strategy (YES) in Kyiv on Friday morning.

Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group, the country's second president, Leonid Kuchma, in turn, said there is a chance to release a large number of hostages in Donbas in the near future.