It should start at midnight on December 23, 2017. As reported after the meeting, the press secretary of the representative of Ukraine in the TCH Leonid Kuchma Darka Olifer such a decision was made on the basis of previously reached agreements and commitments of the parties.

She also assured that today at the meeting confirmed the desire to fulfill obligations to release hostages before the Christmas and New Year holidays.

In addition, there was expressed a common commitment to full implementation of the Minsk agreements, "Olifer added, recalling that the meeting of the humanitarian subgroup of TKG was held on Skype on December 18, and the work on freeing hostages goes according to the formula 24/7.

Recall, the first vice-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, the representative of Ukraine in the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group, Irina Gerashchenko, said that the first stage of the exchange of hostages between Kiev and certain regions of Donetsk and Lugansk regions should take place before the New Year and Christmas holidays.

According to her, 74 of our hero who are in the occupied territory should be released. Among them ten women. In total, she said, the Ukrainian side managed to find out the location of 96 Ukrainian citizens who are held hostage in the occupied territory.

As reported URA-Inform, today in Minsk took place the last meeting of the tripartite contact group.