In November 2018, Russia attacked three Ukrainian warships heading to their port in the Azov Sea and took 24 sailors as POWs. The UN Maritime Tribunal ruled Russia must release them, and the deadline for the release expired on June 25.
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Olga Oprysko, mother of Andriy Oprysko, a 47-year-old able seaman, one of 24 Ukrainian sailors who have been held captive by Moscow since the incident on Azov Sea, looks family album with the picture of her son in her house in Naditychi willage, not far from western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Nov. 29, 2018.
