Five Ukrainian servicemen who are held in Russia have been charged with the shelling of Russian territory, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) information and analytical center spokesman Andriy Lysenko has said.
“18 Ukrainian Armed Forces servicemen and 28 border guards are
still held in Russia. All this time Russian investigators have wrested
an admission of guilt from the Ukrainians that they deliberately fired
at Russian territory. According to operational information, five of our
servicemen have been charged with this. They have been arrested and
taken into police custody,” he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday, Aug. 7.
He said that Ukrainian military were demanding a meeting with Ukrainian diplomats.
Lysenko also said that Ukraine’s consul general in Rostov-on-Don had
tried to meet with the Ukrainians and clarify grounds for their
detention.
“However, the Russian side has unlawfully rejected the meeting, thus grossly violating the norms of international law,” he said.
