. . COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE: Pro-Russia Gunmen in Ukraine Release OSCE European Arms Inspectors . . Pro-Russia Gunmen in Ukraine Release OSCE European Arms Inspectors Sergei L. Loiko May 3, 2014, 7:47 p.m. Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/ la-fg-ukraine-crisis-20140504,0,5684475.story#ixzz30kyEmrwy . A shorter URL for the above link: . http://tinyurl.com/ons3l4r . .Pro-Russia gunmen on Saturday released a team of European arms inspectors and accompanying Ukrainian army officers who had been held for more than a week in the eastern town of Slovyansk.
.The release, described by a Kremlin envoy as a "goodwill move," came a day after violence between government supporters and Russia-backed militants across Ukraine appeared to be spiraling out of control. On Friday, the separatists shot down two military helicopters trying to help retake Slovyansk, and 42 people were killed in fighting in the southern port city of Odessa.
.The less violent tone Saturday does not necessarily signal a new dawn in the troubled area. "Now it has been a quiet day, but as our European guests are gone we are preparing for a new attack," said the self-proclaimed pro-Russia mayor of Slovyansk, Vyacheslav Ponomaryov.
.The six freed inspectors from Germany, Denmark, Czech Republic and Poland and their German interpreter were on a mission for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on April 25 when they were abducted by gunmen near Slovyansk.
.They were released Saturday without preconditions, said Vladimir Lukin, head of the Moscow delegation in Slovyansk, according to Ukrainskaya Pravda, a liberal online journal.
.Ponomaryov had initially accused them of being North Atlantic Treaty Organization spies "on our territory uncontrolled by the junta in Kiev" and told The Times last week that he intended to exchange them for separatists held by Ukrainian law enforcement.
.However, he changed his tone Saturday and said they had never been his hostages but "dear guests."
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