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Separatist leader: more than 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners held in breakaway region -TASS – Metro US

Separatist leader: more than 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners held in breakaway region -TASS

An abandoned building damaged in a missile strike, amid Russia’s
An abandoned building damaged in a missile strike, amid Russia’s invasion, in the city of Kramatorsk, Donetsk region

(Reuters) – A pro-Russian separatist leader in East Ukraine said that more than 5,000 Ukrainian prisoners of war were being held in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, TASS reported on Friday.

Reuters was not immediately able to verify the report.

(Reporting by Reuters; editing by John Stonestreet)