According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the men have been held in Libya for more than six years. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko reported on the safe arrival in Ukraine of four Ukrainian men following years spent in captivity in Libya.
A Ukrainian doctor who worked in Libya and was kidnapped a few days ago has been released, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine.
Libyan naval forces captured two vessels suspected of smuggling oil from the North African country, one of them is the Ukraine-flagged tanker Routa, according to Reuters.