On March 1 Pavlo Klimkin, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine met with Peter Maurer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

P.Klimkin noted the importance of Ukraine’s cooperation with the ICRC for the delivery of international humanitarian aid to the people living in the occupied territories of Donbas.

Minister for Foreign Affairs urged the ICRC to enhance further monitoring of conditions in which Ukrainian detainees are being held by the Russian side on the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, ARC and the Russian Federation, in particular Nadiya Savchenko, Oleg Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko, as well as to pay due attention to detainees with critical health conditions, such as Oleksandr Kostenko and Yurii Soloshenko.

The parties have agreed to intensify bilateral cooperation in the fields of conducting searches of missing persons, as well as finding ways to ensure that the Russian side provides wider access to detainees.