You're reading: Skype conference on prisoner release in Donbas postponed

A Skype conference of the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group for Donbas dedicated to ways to unblock the release of hostages has been moved from Jan. 18 to next week, Darka Olifer, press secretary for Ukrainian representative to the Trilateral Contact Group and former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, said.

“The humanitarian subgroup has agreed to postpone its videoconference till next week,” Olifer told Interfax on Jan. 17 evening.

Following the humanitarian subgroup’s meeting in Minsk on Jan. 16, Verkhovna Rada First Vice-Speaker and Ukrainian representative to the humanitarian subgroup Iryna Gerashchenko said that a Skype conference would take place on Jan. 18, to help unblock the release of hostages.