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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has handed a note to the Russian envoy demanding that a meeting be organized for them with Ukrainian film director Oleh Sentsov, detained by Russia's federal security service FSB.

Russia’s Charge d’Affaires Andrei Vorobyov was summoned to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry today, where a note was handed to him concerning violations of the Ukrainian-Russian consular convention to be found in the detention of Ukrainian citizens, which demands that a meeting be organized with the Ukrainians, including for the purpose of providing the necessary legal assistance to them,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis said at a press briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.

He said the Ukrainian diplomats had no opportunity to meet with the detained Ukrainian film director or other Ukrainian citizens.

But representatives of Russian nongovernmental organizations did visit Sentsov, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry’s sources.

“Our citizens are feeling well and they did not complain about their living conditions,” Perebyinis said, citing these sources.

Reports said earlier that Ukrainian film director Sentsov was detained in Crimea by Russian law enforcement services on May 11. He was accused of organizing a terror attack. Reports emerged on May 19 saying that he was transferred to a detention facility in Moscow.