Ukraine's pro-Russian rebels ready for prisoner swap

[WorldNews]

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Pro-Russian rebels prepared Saturday to swap prisoners with their Ukrainian government foes as part of a battered ceasefire, as an adviser to Ukraine's president said Kiev had lost 179 troops in fighting over the past month. In an exchange the West hopes will cool a deadly conflict that has poisoned relations with Moscow, around 40 prisoners on each side -- some of them wounded -- were to be handed over in the rebel stronghold of Lugansk, the rebels' official for human rights Daria Morozova said. The US and Britain, meanwhile, said they were considering imposing further sanctions against Russia. US Secretary of State John Kerry said in London before talks with British counterpart Philip Hammond.

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