The Commissioner of Kiev in the sub-group on humanitarian challenges Irina Gerashchenko said on Tuesday that 240 Ukrainians are in captivity in Donbas. yesterday we held another round of talks of the contact group on resolving the situation in Ukraine and its 4 thematic sub-groups. According to the results of the negotiations, the Plenipotentiary Representative of the self-proclaimed DND in the contact group Denis Putilin said that the DPR and LPR prepared to exchange with Kiev 17 prisoners. According to his statement, At this point of time in the republics of the 45 prisoners of war, 28 of them are under investigation. He highlighted that for successful implementation of paragraph exchange "all for all" ought to hold an Amnesty of persons related to the events in the South-East. "in the lists generated by the security Service of Ukraine in cooperation with the Ministry of defence and the volunteers - about 240 Ukrainians. That's what we pass on to demand the release, " wrote Gerashchenko on his page century in her expressions, Kiev is working on the release of prisoners and trying to prevent the mission of the international Department of the red cross. 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, 8 thousand people. The settlement of the situation in the Donbass 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.