Number of hostages in occupied parts of Donbas reaches 127

The number of hostages held in the occupied territories has reached 127, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukraine's representative in the humanitarian subgroup of the Tripartite Contact Group Iryna Gerashchenko said at a meeting with Ambassador of Germany in Ukraine Ernst Reichel. They discussed the security and humanitarian situation in the Donbass, the work of the Minsk Group and the OSCE SMM.