A Ukrainian official says negotiations are underway to free nine
Nigerian students taken captive by separatists in the eastern city of
Luhansk.
Colonel Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine's National Security
and Defense Council, told a news conference Wednesday that people with
experience conducting negotiations were making contact with what he
called "the terrorists."
He said Ukrainian officials hoped the talks would end "successfully in
the near future."
Ukrainian news agencies say militants abducted the Nigerian students
in Luhansk on Monday and have been holding them as prisoners at an
occupied government security building.
The city is deep inside rebel-held territory, close to the Russian border.
Separatists seeking greater autonomy have been waging a bloody battle
in eastern Ukraine against the government.
Source: dailyindependent
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