Ghana Minister Asks Zelenskiy to Release Captured Citizens

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, right, and Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Ablakwa, in Kyiv, on Feb. 25.

Photographer: Tetiana Dzhafarova/AFP/Getty Images

Ghana’s Foreign Minister Samuel Ablakwa said he visited Kyiv and held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy seeking the release of citizens of the African country who are being held as prisoners of war.

“We held fruitful discussions focused on Ghana’s appeal on humanitarian grounds for the release of two of our citizens,” he said on his Facebook page late Wednesday.