The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the ICRC will join the work on the release of prisoners in the Donbass.

"We must achieve bestlocation the release of the hostages. The staff in the international Department of the red cross are required to connect to this work ", - said Poroshenko on the first day of the weekend in an interview to a TV channel.

before in the conversation he said that the latest round of negotiations, "Norman Quartet" has helped achieve some progress.

"I explained that We are required to provide compliance with the clause about the release of the hostages, to it on my behalf ICRC is involved, We spoke with the President of this organization, he supported Ukraine, the ICRC took part in it. And set 3 objectives: the first is the release of those hostages that we know where they are stored, the second is the search for other places where illegal contains hostages, And the third is the search for the missing. Finally, We have taken the consent of the Russian side in clear coordinated the work of me as the President of Ukraine, the German Chancellor And the French President, We received the confirmation, And now we will check how, Finally, it will be fulfilled ", - said the head.

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