Insurgents hold international observers captive in Ukraine

An insurgent leader's fighters in Ukraine are holding four observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Insurgents hold international observers captive in Ukraine

An insurgent leader's fighters in Ukraine are holding four observers from the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Vyacheslav Ponomarev, the self-proclaimed "people's mayor" of Slovyansk, a city in the Donetsk region, said today that the four monitors are safe and promised that they would be freed soon.

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