Kidnapped LPR officer liberated after 143 days of captivity

An LPR kidnapped officer of the JCCC Mission has been liberated today from a Starobelsk pre-trial detention facility after 143 days in captivity.

"Thanks to the People's Militia and the liberation of Starobelsk, an LPR JCCC officer Andrey Kosyak has been freed," Lugansk Media Center correspondent reported. 

Ukrainian army's saboteurs captured a representative of the LPR Mission to the JCCC Andrey Kosyak in the Zolotoye security zone on October 13. The LPR demanded that Kiev immediately release Kosyak. 

February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a special military operation in Donbass to protect residents of the region from Ukrainian aggression and called on Ukrainian troops to leave the combat zone. Earlier, the Heads of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, Leonid Pasechnik and Denis Pushilin, requested the Russian president to provide military assistance.

The Ukrainian government launched the so-called anti-terrorist operation against Donbass in April 2014.  The members of the Contact Group have announced ceasefire more than 20 times since the autumn of 2014. Kiev forces regularly violated the truce opening fire with large caliber artillery, mortars and tank guns which were to have been withdrawn from the contact line under the accords. *t