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Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe have jointly devised a plan to liberate OSCE military inspectors from captivity in Sloviansk, Ukraine's deputy foreign minister, Danylo Lubkivsky, said.

“We have devised a clear-cut plan to free the hostages which includes
a list of measures. We hope the captives will be freed immediately,” he
said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

No further details were provided.

Lubkivsky also welcomed the introduction of fresh U.S. and European
Union sanctions against Russia, saying that if Russian troops cross the
Ukrainian border Ukraine will give a military rebuff, but hopes the
conflict will be settled peacefully through talks.

Unidentified men stopped a bus carrying OSCE inspectors on the
outskirts of Sloviansk on April 25 and escorted the bus to the city. The
OSCE experts are working in Ukraine in accordance with Vienna Document
2011 on trust- and security-building measures.