After the meeting, the head of the Ukrainian department noted that the issue of exchange of hostages should be resolved in the coming weeks. As the head of the Ukrainian foreign ministry wrote in his microblog on Twitter, during the meeting it was a matter of exchanging hostages. We must remove it in the coming weeks, because we are talking about people and their loved ones, "he assured..

Recall, November 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin promised to discuss the exchange of prisoners in the Donbass with the leaders of militants.

According to the latest data of the representative of Ukraine in the TCG, Irina Gerashchenko, the militants are holding 152 people hostage. In addition, about two dozen Ukrainian citizens are imprisoned in Russia for political reasons.

As reported URA-Inform, Klimkin first met with Lavrov in a bilateral format "on the sidelines" of the OSCE Ministerial Meeting in Vienna.