This was reported on the Facebook page by the spokesperson of the representative of Ukraine in the negotiations of Leonid Kuchma Darka Olifer. According to her, all the participants in the meeting gathered.

In turn, a representative of the Lugansk militants in the working group for the exchange of prisoners, Olga Kobtseva, said that they are ready to exchange and, within the exchange of prisoners, are ready to hand over 74 hostages to Ukraine. From the side of Lugansk - 16 people, from the side of "Donetsk People's Republic" - 58 ", - reported Kobtseva.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, member of the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group for the settlement of the conflict in the east of Ukraine, Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Gerashchenko said that in captivity of the militants supported by Russia in the Donbass 158 citizens of Ukraine.