A special meeting to coordinate efforts to assist Ukrainian sailors captured by the Russian Federation and their relatives took place in Kyiv on Nov. 27, saying that among the captured Ukrainian sailors there are four injured, one is in serious condition, Iryna Herashchenko, first deputy speaker in the Ukrainian parliament and presidential representative to the Donbas peace talks has said.
“We consider the guys to be prisoners of war captured by Russian Somali pirates in neutral waters. We see the Kremlin’s meanness that did not provide information, including through the Ombudsman’s office, about the health and maintenance of the guys (according to our information, four of the captured sailors were injured, one of them is in serious condition). The invaders do not allow lawyers to everyone,” she wrote on her Facebook page.
On Nov. 25, Russian border guards captured the Yany Kapu tugboat and two small-sized Berdiansk and Nikopol armored artillery boats of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Navy heading from Odesa to Mariupol. After the seizure, they escorted the vessels to the occupied Kerch. The FSB opened a case under Part 3 of Article 322 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal crossing of the state border).
Initially, the Ukrainian side reported about six wounded sailors, the Russian Federation said about three seamen.
Hearings are being held to choose of a measure of restraint to the captured Ukrainians in Simferopol on Nov. 27.
