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UkrInform: Ukraine is ready to take any steps to release hostages held in Russia, says Klimkin

Published June 25, 2018. Updated June 25 at 5:46 pm

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and his Romanian counterpart (not in picture) give a press conference at the Romanian Foreign Ministry in Bucharest October 13, 2017.

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Ukraine is ready to take any steps to release political prisoners and hostages who are currently held in Russia.

“We are ready to take any steps to free our citizens. There are Russian citizens in Ukraine [who were convicted]…the verdicts in their cases have been delivered already. We are ready to make decisions,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in a commentary to journalists, a UkrInform correspondent reports.