OSCE in talks to release monitors held in Ukraine, says they're "OK"

A special mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe is in talks with a number of groups in eastern Ukraine to release two of its teams that have been detained there for days, a spokesman said on Sunday. A team of four monitors has been held in the Donetsk region since last Monday evening, while another four plus a Ukrainian translator were detained around the Luhansk region on Thursday. We've been on the ground in that region for about two months now and we're well known to many people who hold sway in those areas so we're in a good position, we feel, to get our colleagues back to base," said Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman of the special mission. "We're quite confident that they're in good shape, they haven't been harmed," he told journalists outside the OSCE's office in Kiev. Read More http://ift.tt/1pxf8TV