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 Garanich
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine (Reuters) - 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.
Ukraine has pushed prisoner exchanges in a series of confidence-building measures to break the deadlock over a conflict in the eastern Donbass region that has killed more than 13,000 people since 2014.
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