Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have offered to release eight captive international observers in a prisoner exchange, as Western governments prepared new sanctions against Moscow.
Irish Times: Ukraine separatists offer to exchange OSCE captives for prisoners
Vyacheslav Ponomaryov, de facto mayor of Slaviansk, told reporters: \u201cThey were soldiers on our territory without our permission, of course they are prisoners.\u201d
