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27. Shaky' truce holds in Ukraine as UN raises death toll

Mon Sep 8, 2014, 06:32 AM

Sep 2014

The ceasefire was holding on Monday, after what Kyiv said was sporadic rebel shelling overnight.

"Overall the ceasefire held even though it is still shaky," said Ambassador Thomas Greminger of Switzerland, who chairs the Organization for Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The OSCE is currently overseeing the Ukraine ceasefire, which took effect on Friday evening.

The deal will include an exchange of prisoners. A senior separatist leader on Monday was quoted as saying the expected "all-for-all" swap would take place Wednesday.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko is set to visit the coastal city of Mariupol on Monday. The strategic port, located on the Sea of Azov, was the site of fighting over the weekend that killed one woman and threatened to derail the tentative truce.

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