Ukraine says one of detained international observers needs medical care


KIEV (Reuters) - One of the international observers being held by pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk needs urgent medical care, Ukraine's state security service said on Saturday.

"Today the official representatives of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) are being held in inhuman conditions in the basement of the terrorists' headquarters," the service said in a statement on its Internet site.

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