MOSCOW/KIEV, Sept. 15 – The self-declared Donetsk People's Republic has exchanged a new group of captives with the Ukrainian military, said the republic's first deputy prime minister Andrei Purgin.

"The captives have been exchanged: 73 for 73," he told Interfax on Sunday.

On Friday DPR First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Purgin said the DPR militants and Kiev once again exchanged POW lists.