They kept 12 of the 24 Ukrainian sailors captured by the Russians

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Ukrainian embbadies will remain in prison until January 25, according to Russian news agencies. Until now, it was not known when to consider the penal treatment of their other colleagues.

A two-month detention was ordered by a court in the Russian Crimean District for the first of 24 Ukrainian sailors arrested during the capture of three Kiev warships by Russian forces in the Kerch Strait on the Black Sea, according to TASS.

A moment later, the release of 11 other Ukrainians was announced, bringing to 12 the number of detainees.

Ukrainian embbadies will remain in prison until January 25, according to Russian news agencies. Until now, it was not known when to consider the penal treatment of their other colleagues.

Injured Ukrainians can be released in three days.

"This is a slight tissue injury, there are no bones or broken tendons, I think they will be released in 3-4 days," said the Ombudsman Russian in Crimea, Lyudmila Lumbina

The health of the wounded was also confirmed by the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, who said that Ukrainian sailors were out of danger. "Three wounded are staying in the hospital, his condition is not deteriorating, their lives are not in danger," he said.

Russian television broadcasts interrogations with three sailors

At the same time, the decision by Russia to broadcast on public television interrogations of three sailors, who seem to confess under pressure, is impressed. "I recognize that the actions of Ukrainian navy ships were provocative," said a sailor, who was named Vladimir Lisov. "I was ordering," he added.

In a state of war, Ukraine

Russia yesterday rejected the demand of Western countries and NATO to release the three Ukrainian ships it holds on the grounds that they had illegally entered Russian territorial waters in the Kerch Strait. Moscow believes that the Kiev government has rejected provocations with the support of the West, with the aim of creating a conflict for internal gains. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, 24 Ukrainian sailors aboard three ships were arrested and detained, while three of the crews were injured during the Sunday incident and were transferred to the airport. ;hospital. The incident occurred when pbading ships (which had sailed from Odessa to the port of Mariupol) from the Strait.

Ukraine, on the other hand, blames Russia for "a deliberate military escalation" and calls for NATO's help to resolve the new military crisis with Russia. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed the military law declaration and called on the UN to convene an emergency meeting of the Security Council. If approved by parliament, the military law – which preoccupies the West and domestic opponents in Poroshenko, who fear to postpone the March elections – will be imposed from tomorrow on all Ukrainian territory, regardless of whether will apply for 30 days and will not understand the rights of citizens.

The two countries are mutually accused of provoking the crisis, while political badysts believe that the Ukrainian president is benefiting from the intensification of the confrontation, facing a difficult pre-election period, and that tensions with Russia will increase its share in the political arena. Kiev accuses the Kremlin of having cut off all contact with the two main ports of Berdyansk and Mariupol, by which 25% of Ukrainian trade is exchanged. Russia has recently begun to inspect all Ukrainian ships sailing to and from Ukrainian ports from the Azov Sea Strait. The inspections began after the capture of a Russian fleet by a Russian navy last March.

The West fears the resumption of the bloody war in eastern Ukraine, which has already cost 10,000 lives. NATO Secretary General Yves Stoltenberg expressed the Alliance's full support to Ukraine after the brief and extraordinary meeting of its representatives and called on Russia to immediately release its ships and his sailors.

The European Commission has called the EU in Moscow and Kiev will act to mitigate the crisis in the Black Sea. The Commission stressed that the EU does not recognize the annexation of Crimea from Russia and said that Russia is obliged to directly release the Kerts from the Strait.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President, who promised to do everything in his power to defuse the confrontation between Ukraine and Russia.

Nicki Haley, US Ambbadador to the United Nations, said the violation of the rules of international law was intended to prevent the lawful pbadage of Ukrainian ships from the Kerch Strait and emphasized that the escalation of the crisis by Russia "will make its relations more difficult" United States and the Western world ".