SBU reports 109 Ukrainians still held as hostage in Donbas and Russia, 495 missing

12:47, 25.10.2016 1 min read

Some 109 Ukrainian citizens are held hostage as of today, while 495 people are reported missing, adviser to the chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Yuriy Tandit has said.

"As of today, 109 persons are listed as hostages, they are illegally kept in occupied areas in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and another nine people are in Russia. And it is important to not to forget about the 495 missing who we will be seeking. In any case it is very important to find them all," Tandit told journalists in Kyiv on Tuesday.