Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has said that the situation in Ukraine can be settled only through reconciliation and the peaceful settlement of all problematic issues.
“The May 2 developments in Odesa should become a signal to everyone that reconciliation and peace are the only way to save Ukraine, to make it a prosperous European state,” he said at a May 3 briefing at Boryspil airport after meeting OSCE military inspectors freed in Sloviansk.
Yatseniuk said that all OSCE military inspectors who had been taken hostage were freed on May 3.
“All attempts to split them as they said failed and they were all united,” the premier added.
He also spoke of the need to free 3 officers of Alfa task force of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) who remain hostage in Sloviansk.
“Officers of Alfa special force remain in captivity and at my meeting with the SBU leadership on Thursday evening I urged the service leadership to immediately return the men to Kyiv safe and sound,” he said.
The three officers had been captured in Horlivka near Sloviansk on April 26. They were on a mission to detain a Russian citizen suspected of the murder of a member of the Horlivka City Council, Volodymyr Rybak.
Head of the Antiterrorist Center Vasyl Krutov announced on Saturday that the situation with the release of the three officers was being monitored.
Twelve people held captive by the so-called home-guard in Sloviansk, including eight OSCE military inspectors, were released on May 3.
