Russia refused to comply with the ECHR decisions on captured Ukrainian seamen, an ombudsman

The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian authorities to provide Russia refused to apply a provisional measure of the European Court of Human Rights, which obliged the Russian authorities to provide appropriate medical care to Ukrainian seamen captured as a result of an attack on Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait.

According to the UNIAN correspondent, the authorized representative of the Verkhovna Rada for human rights, Lyudmila Denisova, said in comments to reporters following the meeting of authorities with close to 24 Ukrainian prisoners of war

"Russia refused to comply with the ECHR … They just wrote on the FSB website that everything was fine," she said, commenting on the situation Ukrainian sailors seized by Russia

According to Denisov, Russia does not fulfill its obligations either. in fact, no international law. "We must talk about it every day so that they recognize our sailors as prisoners of war and act in accordance with the Geneva Convention and other international conventions in this area," Denisov added.

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According to UNIAN, on December 4, the European Court of Human Rights had ordered the authorities of the Russian Federation to provide appropriate medical care to Ukrainian sailors captured as a result of an attack against Ukrainian vessels. Strait of Kerch

The court ordered that a temporary and urgent security measure be taken in the new Ukrainian intergovernmental affair against Russia in connection with the events in the Kerch Strait

In particular, the Russian authorities " should ensure that the captured Ukrainian army receives appropriate medical care from naval personnel in need, and in particular any person who may have been injured in the naval incident of 25 November in the Kerch Strait. "