Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) will discuss the release of hostages at the request of the Ukrainian side on December 23, spokesperson for Ukraine's representative in the contact group, second President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, Darka Olifer, has said.

"The issue of the release of our citizens will be raised during the Skype-meeting of the TCG, which is to be held at the request of the Ukrainian side on Friday, December 23. We also demanded the release of five teenagers who were illegally detained in Donetsk. Representatives of the ORDLO (separate areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions) promised to place them under the house arrest before the New Year," she wrote on her Facebook page following the TCG meeting in Minsk on Wednesday.