Ukraine's military and Russia-backed rebels carried out a prisoner exchange Aug. 27 in eastern Ukraine, a result of an agreement this week by the two sides to halt the ongoing violence by September 1.
Voice of America: Ukraine, Russian-backed fighters exchange prisoners
Ukrainian prisoners of war and emergency workers work in the ruins, extracting from the rubble the bodies of dead Ukrainian soldiers inside a destroyed airport building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, on Feb. 26.
