Ukraine is seeking the immediate release of at least 25 Ukrainians with health problems who have been held hostage in Donbas, Ukrainian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group's humanitarian subgroup in Minsk and Member of Parliament Iryna Gerashchenko has said.
“We have been fighting for the release of at least 25 our men. This is a very hard job, but we’ll do our best [to ensure the release of] all who are in occupied Donbas now – and these are far from 25 people. We would like the ill hostages to be released first,” she told journalists on June 14 after Ukrainian citizens Hennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko had been freed from imprisonment in Russia after a swap.
The Ukrainian side knows the names of Donbas hostages and their whereabouts, she said.
“Unfortunately, all keys to all prisons are kept in the Kremlin,” she said.
