Authorized international Department of the red cross stands ready to assist in the work of the humanitarian sub-group in Minsk on the issue of release of prisoners in the Donbass, said Last news the press-Secretary of the ICRC in Ukraine Ashot Astracan.

the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the first day of the weekend said that the ICRC will join the work on the release of prisoners in the Donbass. The Commissioner of Kiev in the sub-group on humanitarian issues within the framework of the contact group on resolving the situation in Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko said that about 250 of Ukrainians are captured by militias in the Donbass. In DND stated that this figure is not true. According to the Ombudsman of the Republic in the thrall of Kiev remains more than 1,200 people, most of whom are civilian.

"We have many times expressed readiness to share experience with the sub-group on humanitarian issues, to help solve issues, for example, in the issue of release of prisoners," said Astracan.

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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