One of the sailors seized by Russia was interested in the "RDP"

The head of the FSB Investigation Department of Russia, Mikhail Shishov, said that a Donetsk resident had identified an employee of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) who had him tortured in one of the captured Ukrainian sailors held in the Kerch Strait.

"At the Investigation Service The FSB initially appealed to a resident of Donetsk, who identified one of the detained employees of the SBU as a person from whom he had been tortured after being detained. Berdyansk, "he said at an information meeting on Saturday, December 8, according to Russian Interfax.

For the slave Ovami Shishova, "interested in the forces of the Donetsk order and responsible for providing them with the appropriate material".

Russian border guards launch on November 25 an armed attack in the Straits of Kerch on three ships of the Ukrainian Navy – the tug Yani Kapu and two small armored vehicles. The artillery boats "Berdyansk" and "Nikopol", who traveled from Odessa to Mariupol through the Black Sea and Azov. Ships captured with crews placed in occupied Kerch. As a result of the Russian military attack, 24 Ukrainian sailors were arrested, including three wounded. Among the detainees are two employees of the SBU

A group of independent investigative journalists, Bellingcat, is based on data from the Russian FSB to find that one of the three boats, namely the Berdyansk boat, had fired on Russian troops in neutral waters.

Two SBU rebels took part in Russian special operations against Ukrainian ships. They joined Russia in 2014.

On November 28, the occupiers arrested all captive sailors and transported them to Moscow. The Russian FSB accuses them of illegally crossing the border. Thus, captive Ukrainian sailors are threatened in Russia with a sentence of up to six years in prison.