ZHOLOBOK: The United States warned Saturday it could level "serious sanctions" on Russia within days over breaches of Ukraine's truce, which is in tatters despite pro-Moscow rebels and government forces exchanging scores of prisoners.

AFP journalists in Ukraine's eastern frontline town of Zholobok saw 139 Ukrainian soldiers traded for 52 separatist fighters late Saturday, in rare compliance of the otherwise much-violated truce which came into effect a week ago.

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