KIEV, Sept. 8 – Some 1,200 Ukrainian captives and hostages have been freed over the past four days, said President Petro Poroshenko.

"Over the past four days we have been able to free 1,200 Ukrainians from captivity," he said in Mariupol on Monday.

Poroshenko said citing the information from the Security Service of Ukraine that "another 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war were freed as part of the Minsk agreement."