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NOVOAZOVSK - Oleksandr Zakharchenko, the prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), categorically dismisses the possibility of an exchange of territories between the militias and the government forces.

‘We are not going to exchange a single city for anything along the contact line, as well as on the other part of the DPR,’ Zakharchenko said at a meeting with voters at a culture club in Novoazovsk.