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On the evening of January 15, the Leipzigsky District Court in Moscow extended the arrest of eight other Ukrainian seamen whom the Kremlin had captured near the Kerch Strait at the end of November 2018. All will be in custody until April 24, 2019.
Note that Ukrainian seamen were divided into six four, decisions on which three judges adopted decisions.
Read also: The Moscow court applauds the wounded Ukrainian sailors: video [19659004] The Moscow judges first determined the fate of Sergei Tsibizov Andriy Opryska Yevgeny Semidotsky by Romain Mokryaka . The two other four entered Andriy Shevchenko Bogdan Golovash Sergei Popov Volodymyr Tereshchenko and the third – Denis Gritsenko Andriy Drach Vyacheslav Zinchenko . All 12 Ukrainian sailors continued their arrest until 24 April.
On the evening of January 15, the line of waiting reached Oleg Melnychuk Andriy Artemenko Andriy Ayder . and Basil Soroka . As in the previous case, they decided to stay at SIZO on April 24, according to the decision of the Moscow District Court .
Subsequently, the court left four others in detention: Yuri Budzil Bogdan Nebilyts Sergey Chulib and Yuri Bezyasichny . Their period of detention at SIZO should be erased also on April 24.
It should be added that, at meetings already organized, the protection asked the court to refuse to request an inquiry into the extension of detention. The Ukrainian embassy in Russia having been convinced, Radio Liberty
said earlier that the defense of the captured Ukrainian sailors was declaring that they would appeal the continuation of their arrest, especially in case modification of precautionary measures by the prisoner of war. European Court of Human Rights.
How did Ukrainian sailors find themselves in Russian captivity? On November 25, 2018, Russia committed an act of aggression against Ukraine in the Kerch Strait. That day, the Russian border ship struck the tug of the Ukrainian army . This occurred when 3 Ukrainian warships legally left the port of Odessa for the port of Mariupol. In Russia, they stated that Ukrainian vessels illegally entered the temporarily closed water zone of the territorial sea of the Russian Federation and went to the Kerch Strait
. After the attack, Ukrainian ships continued to move up to Mariupol, while leaving the Kerch Strait at the border. Russian ships fired on Ukrainian ships. As a result, six Ukrainian soldiers were injured.
As a result, Russia seized two Ukrainian ships and captured 24 sailors, who were then arrested in occupied Crimea and taken to SIZO Moscow. All Ukrainian sailors announced that they were prisoners of war. The lawyers of Ukrainian sailors predict that the trial of prisoners in Russia will begin no earlier than a year later. Meanwhile, the prisoners are in detention and only prolong the arrest time.
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