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Hot spot1,200 captives, hostages freed in past 4 days — Poroshenko
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said that 1,200 Ukrainian captives and hostages have been freed over the past four days.
«Over the past four days we have been able to free 1,200 Ukrainians from captivity,» he said in Mariupol on Monday.
Poroshenko said citing the information from the Security Service of Ukraine that «another 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war were freed as part of the Minsk agreement.»
The president also said that 863 people were still held captives and Kyiv was doing everything possible to return them home by the end of the week.
According to him, the document signed in Minsk contains 12 very important provisions.
«But we need two things — please pull your troops out, seal the border and we will agree to everything on our own,» the president said.
The Ukrainian army will defend the state and will not give up a single patch of the Ukrainian land, Poroshenko said.
The president also said that 33 Ukrainian soldiers who had not surrendered were taken out of encirclement on Sunday.
«I am meeting them in Mariupol today,» Poroshenko added.
At a meeting in Minsk on September 5, the Contact Group signed a protocol on immediate ceasefire in eastern Ukraine from 1800 Kyiv time. The protocol contains 12 points and involves, in particular, prisoner exchange, humanitarian aid delivery, and monitoring of the ceasefire regime on the border.
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