SBU reports 109 Ukrainians still held as hostage in Donbas

Some 109 Ukrainian citizens are held hostage as of today, while 495 people are reported missing, adviser to the chief of the SBU Security Service of Ukraine Yuriy Tandit has said. As he said, 109 persons are listed as hostages, they are illegally kept in occupied areas in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, and another nine people are in Russia. When the hostahes' exchange could happen, Yuri Tandit didn't clarify and did not link this fact with holding on October 26 in Minsk talks of Trilateral contact group.