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A meeting between the Normandy Quartet foreign ministers (France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine) scheduled for March 3, in Paris, should help intensify the freeing of hostages in Donbas, says Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's representative in the Trilateral Contact Group and former Ukrainian president.

“I am glad that the people are finally returning to their families. It’s extremely difficult to work for their liberation, but when you succeed, you understand that not everything’s in vain. I expect that a meeting of the Normandy Quartet foreign ministers in Paris, on March 3, would help intensify the liberation process even more,” Kuchma’s press secretary Darya Olifer quoted him as saying on her Facebook account on Feb. 26.

Earlier on Feb. 26, President Petro Poroshenko had said three Ukrainian hostages had been freed from captivity in Donbas.