About 500 people on list of missing persons in Donbas

Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, representative of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on settlement of Donbas conflict Iryna Gerashchenko announced this, Ukrayinska Pravda online newspaper reports.

"About 500 people are on the list of persons gone missing in Donbas. There are many those who disappeared after Ilovaisk tragedy," she said on the air of ICTV Ukrainian channel.

Gerashchenko noted that now it was important to ensure access of the Red Cross mission to the occupied territories for people search, identification and releasing captives.

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