Kidnapped in Libya before the militants of the terrorist group "Islamic state" Ukrainian doctors released from captivity, said a spokesman for the foreign Ministry of Ukraine Yevhen Perebyinis.
"on March 16 in Sirte (Libya) armed persons connected with the so-called" Islamic state of Iraq and the Levant, was kidnapped by a group of fifteen Ukrainian doctors who work in the Libyan clinic Ibn Sina and were obliged to leave the territory of the city Due to the deteriorating security situation in the area. Operational measures taken by the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Embassy of Ukraine in Libya Ukrainian citizens on the same day were released and returned to their places of former residence in Libya " - quoted Perebyinis UNIAN. Wide expansion of the IG, seized a large territory of Iraq and Syria, was one of the major global issues of 2014. The grouping, numbering, according to the CIA about 30 thousand Terrorists declared in the occupied territories of the Caliphate seeks to further expand its acquisitions. A unified front against IG no: grouping oppose the current military parts of Syria and Iraq, the International coalition led by the United States (so far limited to air strikes), as well as Iraqi and Syrian Kurds. In the end, fighting several thousand civilians have lost their lives, hundreds of thousands became refugees and several thousand are being held hostage by the IG.


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