Ukraine expects to swap 100 prisoners with Russian-backed separatists within weeks

A security guard holds a weapon near a viewing port of a helicopter during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's working trip to the frontline with Russian-backed separatists in Donetsk Region, Ukraine August 6, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichShare this contentCHASIV YAR, Ukraine: Ukraine expects to exchange around 100 prisoners on each side with Russian-backed separatists within weeks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff told Reuters on Thursday on a visit to eastern Ukraine.

Andriy Yermak, the head of the president's office and a key Ukrainian negotiator, told Reuters that Kyiv had submitted a list of about 100 people to mediators at the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe . Relations between Ukraine and Russia collapsed after Moscow's annexation of the Crimea peninsula in 2014 and support for fighters in the Donbass.Major combat ended with a ceasefire agreed in the Belarus capital Minsk in 2015, but sporadic clashes still regularly kill civilians, Ukrainian soldiers and separatists.

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