Kiev and the pro-Russian rebels accept a prisoner exchange


The prisoner exchange could take place this weekend. Under the agreement, Kiev exchange 225 150 Ukrainian soldiers against separatists.


On the ground, the observers of the tripartite coordination center in the city of Debaltsevo, confirm that the cease-fire agreements reached in Minsk are not respected.


Among the observers of the Russian military that ensure stay away fighting, but protect the rebels.


"We have never been part of the conflict," says one of them. "We help both sides, the Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk."


Ukrainian troops are stationed a few kilometers of the coordination center. They explain regularly under fire from pro-Russian rebels.


In the Donbass, several cities such as Debaltsevo are destroyed in part the crossfire are always regular and the peace process seems deadlocked for a conflict that has claimed more than 4,700 lives since its outbreak in April.






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