"As of today, 3,080 people have either been released from captivity or located. There are places where our people are kept now. They are held by those people who are subject to Kremlin-controlled proxies. These are the places where they are kept unlawfully," Tandit said, hromadske.tv reported.
Read alsoMilitants deny access for OSCE official to prisons with hostages in Donbas – Ukraine envoyDonbas militants keep 107 Ukrainians in captivity in temporarily occupied territory in eastern Ukraine, while nine people are unlawfully imprisoned in Russia, he said.
Militants from terrorist organizations – the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic – have officially confirmed that 45 Ukrainians are held in captivity, he added.
