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Ukrainian Security Service to Open Hotline for Russians Looking for Missing Relatives

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The Security Service of Ukraine on Monday will open a telephone counselling hotline for the Russian citizens, who are looking for their relatives, who went missing on the territory of Ukraine, the head of Ukrainian Security Service, Valentin Nalivaichenko said on Ukrainian Espreso.TV.

KIEV, October 5 (RIA Novosti) - The Security Service of Ukraine on Monday will open a telephone counselling hotline for the Russian citizens, who are looking for their relatives, who went missing on the territory of Ukraine, the head of Ukrainian Security Service, Valentin Nalivaichenko said on Ukrainian Espreso.TV.

"On Monday we will open [a hotline]," Nalivaichenko said on Saturday, adding that the Russian citizens will be able to call the hotline and provide or receive information about the relatives they are looking for.

The head of Ukrainian Security Council emphasized that the Ukrainian side under the international control will be investigating into the war crimes, committed in the country's southeast. "But it will be done in an open manner, for the fate of every person [who went missing] to be ascertained, and for every [found] body to be identified: who was this person, where he or she died and where did he or she come from."

Ukraine has been engulfed in violent internal conflict since mid-April, when Kiev began its military operation against independence supporters in the southeastern regions of the country. According to UN estimates, over 3,600 have been killed in eastern Ukraine so far.

The sides agreed on a ceasefire at a meeting of the Contact Group on Ukraine, held in Minsk on September 5.

Since the establishment of the ceasefire regime, the conflicting sides have repeatedly accused each other of violating the agreement.

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