DHAKA: Pro-Russia separatists in eastern Ukraine have admitted they are holding four international monitors and said they may free them soon.

Interfax says, reports the BBC.

‘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 news Russian 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.

BDST: 1238 HRS, MAY 29, 2014