Out of donetsk after three weeks, leaving through Dnipropetrovsk. Not all that far away but a different world - Ukrainian flags everywhere
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) May 28, 2014
#ukraine's culture minister, MC of Maidan's stage during the protests: one more big rally then let's clear the square http://t.co/Re4qAFJ0xR
— Gulliver Cragg (@gullivercragg) May 28, 2014
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told reporters that Polish consular services are working to secure his release. He gave no further details on the case.
Polish media named the priest as Father Pawel Witek and said was seized yesterday by separatist rebels.
Polish and Ukrainian media said the priest is believed to be at the Ukrainian SBU state security service building, which is occupied by the separatists in Donetsk.
Poland has been one of the staunchest supporters of the new pro-Western government in Ukraine.
A four-member team of monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe went missing in the Donetsk area on May 26.
Für das nächste Mal, wenn Dir jemand etwas über Faschisten in der #Ukraine erzählt > @Afelia https://t.co/2Jek6CIyMb pic.twitter.com/cDXBPu9j7l
— Dirk Emmerich (@DEmmerich) May 28, 2014
.@OSCE in #Ukraine says there is still no contact with a monitoring team that went missing in the #Donetsk region on May 27.
— Just Hovens Greve (@JustHovensGreve) May 28, 2014
#Klitschko leading in Kyiv mayoral election with over half ballots tabulated http://t.co/8QwSTtUK8X
— Kyiv Post (@KyivPost) May 28, 2014
Reports of renewed and heavy gunfire in Donetsk and Slavyansk. These terrorists aren't going to go easily. Putin will test Poroshenko
— bruce springnote (@BSpringnote) May 28, 2014
Putin will meet Hollande on the eve of events to mark a World War II anniversary.
It would be Putin's first meeting with the leader of a major Western power after Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea in March.
Yuri Ushakov also said that what he described as the Ukrainian government's "provocative" military actions in eastern Ukraine push the crisis further into deadlock.
Meanwhile, the Reuters news agency quotes a NATO military officer as saying that Russia has withdrawn thousands of troops from areas near the Ukrainian border but that tens of thousands remain.
NATO previously estimated that Russia had amassed 40,000 troops on Ukraine's border.
Meanwhile, in an interview with Germany's "Bild" daily, Petro Poroshenko, who won Ukraine's presidential election, says "a real war is being waged" against Ukraine. "We will end this terror," he said.
People seek shelter underground in #Donetsk but no actual shooting, as @RolandOliphant reports pic.twitter.com/9HY5PgJjqE
— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) May 28, 2014