The sub-group on humanitarian issues talk in Minsk on bringing the red cross to search for the missing in the Donbas Ukrainians, said during the debate representative of Ukraine in the subgroup Irina Gerashchenko.

"The Ukrainian side today insists that the international Committee of the red cross joined the search for missing persons, identification of bodies of victims, as well as by the organization visited those cities, where Ukrainians held As terrorists, and in Russian prisons. This will be our initiative, which we are going to speak today during the meeting of the humanitarian sub-group in Minsk ", - quotes Agency " words Gerashchenko.

According to the Agency, Gerashchenko said that now in the list of the missing are 1, 1 thousand people, and in the lists of those who are placed in captivity - 270, among them eleven people in Russian prisons. Gerashchenko also said that the dialogues for the release of prisoners are very difficult and two months turned out to be released only twelve.

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 were about 6, 5 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.

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