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Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Social Policy, Employment and Pensions, MP from the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko (BPP) faction Serhiy Kunitsyn says the government is now working to return home Ihor Belokurov, a native of Ukraine’s Volyn region, who during his Afghanistan deployment as a Soviet Army soldier was taken captive some 30 years ago.

“We have created a working group on behalf of the president… A lot of work has been done to return Ihor Belokurov to his Homeland, Ukraine,” Kunitsyn told journalists on July 10.

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