About six hundred people remain in captivity of terrorists, and the talks on their release are tense, ATO spokesman Andriy Lysenko said at the briefing, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“The authorities have not abandoned attempts to release our soldiers and civilians, captured by the gunmen. The appropriate measures are taken every day,” Lysenko said.
He noted that the talks on release of prisoners are tense. “We want to free all of them, but not everything depends on us,” the spokesman said.
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