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Prisoner swap definitely will not take place on Aug. 30

Published Aug. 30, 2019 at 12:12 pm

A man gestures as pro-Russia rebels who were made prisoners wait in a bus during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels on the check-point near the city of Gorlivka on Dec. 27, 2018.Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels swapped hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn east of the country on December 27, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency in 2014. The swap of captives on a dusty road close to the town of Gorlivka, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of the rebels' stronghold of Donetsk is an attempt to revive a tattered peace deal between the Kiev army and rebels from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. / AFP PHOTO / Anatolii STEPANOV

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The exchange of persons held in the Russian Federation and Ukraine will not take place on Aug. 30, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Interfax-Ukraine.

“The exchange date is not known. Not today, that’s for sure,” the source told the agency.

In turn, sources of the Internet publication Radio Liberty claim that the exchange of persons held between Ukraine and Russia has been postponed until next week.