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KYIV. January 31st UNN. The European Union's Ambassador to Russia, Marcus Ederer, to the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Alexander Grushko, made an official approach, a classic instrument of diplomacy ie a government or diplomatic representation of a state before the government of another state to declare its position or to protest. The Ambassador (Editors Ed.) Recalled the well-known EU position on the continued detention of Ukrainian servicemen by Russia, said the EU spokesman, UNN referring to at the DW.
According to the results of the meeting held on Wednesday, 30 January.
The reply stresses that the EU expects from Russia that it will immediately and unconditionally release 24 captured Ukrainian seamen, as well as respect for their rights to legal protection and unhindered access from them to the consular staff. Brussels is also calling on Moscow to give injured seafarers access to appropriate medical care. And the use of force by Russia on November 25 was again described as "unacceptable".
In turn, the post-RF delegation to the EU interpreted the meeting in a different way. In his statement, it was pointed out that "the situation in Ukraine following the violation of the border of the Ukrainian navy in the Kerch Strait on 25 November 2018" was discussed. In Moscow too, I would like the EU to take a principled approach to gross violations of human rights, discrimination of national and linguistic minorities, as well as manifestations of neo-Nazism and violence. anti-Semitism in Ukraine ".
As reported UNN, November 25, at the border Russian FSB ships fired and captured three naval vessels of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, consisting of two small armored artillery boats " Berdyansk "and" Nikopol "and a tram" Jani Kapu "who had carried out a planned transfer from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol in Sea Azov. 24 Ukrainian sailors were arrested in Crimea and transferred to Russian prisons in Moscow.
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