Ukraine has sent "more than 20 requests to Russian authorities for Ukrainian diplomats to be allowed to visit two Ukrainian nationals arrested in Russia last year but all the requests have been "ignored," a senior Ukrainian diplomat said on May 26.
“I have to say that by today more than 20 appeals from Ukraine to Russian authorities concerning access for Ukrainian consuls to Ukrainian nationals Klikh and Karpiuk have been ignored,” Dmytro Kuleba told a briefing in Kyiv.
Mykola Karpiuk, leader of the Ukrainian National Assembly, was arrested in March 2014 in connection with the wars in Chechnya between 1994 and 2001. Stanislav Klikh was arrested on Aug. 11, 2014. Russia has never disclosed the whereabouts of either.
Ukraine “continues to bombard the Russian Federation with inquiries through all channels so that we are able at last to talk to these people and make sure that they are well and their rights are not violated,” Kuleba said.
