Minimum 1,460 persons were missing in the Donbass, reported in Kiev
Minimum 1,460 persons listed as of today in the list of missing persons in the East of Ukraine, and the Red Cross must be attached to their search, said the Commissioner of the President on the peaceful settlement in the Donbass Irina Gerashchenko, which is Kiev in the working group on humanitarian issues within the framework of the trilateral contact group.
As informs on Thursday a press-service of the Ukrainian President, about it She said on Thursday at a meeting with the head of the delegation of the international Department of the red cross (ICRC) in Ukraine Alan Aclimandos.
"Irina Gerashchenko expressed the position of Ukraine that organization, the ICRC must be attached to the question of finding and identifying missing in the conflict in the Donbass. She recalled that today in the lists of missing persons have a Minimum of 1,460 persons, and it is critical to establish their fate. She also reiterated the interest of the Ukrainian side in the ICRC was attached to humanitarian missions that the Ukrainian authorities are ready to form and pass on to the occupied territories to support the needy, in social and medical institutions ", - is informed in the report.
The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict began more than 6, 2 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbas is discussed, as well as among them, during meetings in Minsk contact group, which since September of last year already took 3 of the document governing the steps to de-escalate the conflict.
The last document is dated 12 February - in addition to the ceasefire, withdrawal of heavy weapons and creating a security zone requires the Authorities of Ukraine to engage in direct dialogue with the authorized self-proclaimed DND and LNR, for example, on the issue of conduct in local elections, entering into the Constitution of Ukraine of change, involving the decentralization of Power, as well as on the issue of legislative recognition of special status of separate districts of Donetsk and Lugansk regions ". The results of the last meeting of the contact group 6 may present turned out to form four sub-working groups on specific aspects of de-escalation of the conflict.