657 people missing in east Ukraine – Deputy Speaker

"At present, this list contains 657 civilian and military persons," said Herashchenko. At the same time, she assured that Ukraine is pushing very hard the issue of getting the International Red Cross involved in the mechanism of searching for missing persons. However, according to the lawmaker, the admission of the International Red Cross mission to prisons in the occupied areas, as well as the question of finding the missing persons is curently being blocked by militants there.