"250-300 Russian soldiers are held captive in Ukraine," Oleksiy Arestovich, a Ukrainian presidential adviser said in the "Feygin Live" program, APA reports citing UNIAN.
"I can say about the hostages that their number us 250-300, it is just conscripted," he stressed.
Arestovich said it was difficult to say how many Russian conscripts had fought in Ukraine: "However, there is no direction in which military operations take place without such servicemen. The point is that, according to my calculations, there are at least 80,000-100,000 conscripts here.”