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| Ukraine rebels 'to free' observers | Ukraine rebels 'to free' observers |
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| Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have admitted they are holding four international monitors and said they may free them soon, Interfax says. | |
| "We'll clarify who they are, where they were heading and why, and will set them free," the self-proclaimed mayor of Sloviansk told the Russian news agency. | |
| The members of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe were stopped near Donetsk on Monday. | |
| Fighting between pro-Kiev and rebel forces has worsened in recent days. | |
| The four missing monitors are Turkish, Swiss, Estonian and Danish, the OSCE has said. | |
| Sloviansk's self-proclaimed Mayor Vyacheslav Ponomaryov told Interfax on Thursday: "We know where they are, all is well with them." | |
| He said the four had decided to travel to a separatist-held area despite having been warned "against going anywhere for a while". | |
| "Of course they were detained," he said, although he insisted they had not been arrested. | |
| Last month the rebels held seven OSCE-linked military observers for a week in Sloviansk, before releasing them without condition. |