The head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Ukrainian Residents who are within the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics, prisoners. "Citizens of Ukraine who are on during the occupied territories, I consider as Ukrainian prisoners of war, captured by the invader," said Poroshenko, speaking in Parliament in his annual address to the Verkhovna Rada. He added that this part of the Donbas as an integral part of Ukraine " is ready to assist not only Kyiv, but international partners. at rallies in early April of last year do not recognise the legality of what happened in Kiev coup d'etat residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions proclaimed the development of " people's republics ", which after held in may referendum declared its sovereignty and later formed the Union of " new Russia ". The second of November have passed elections of heads and parliaments of the self-proclaimed republics. In Kiev DND and LNR not realized, and in mid-April in the area began the military operation. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict have become more 6, 4 thousand people.