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Moscow Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Potyayeva will visit the wounded Ukrainian sailors at the Matrosskaya Tishina detention facility on December 4, the Verkhovna Rada’s Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova has said.

“The Moscow human rights commissioner will visit them tomorrow to see how human rights are being observed,” Denisova said in the program Svoboda Slova aired by the television channel ICTV on December 3 night.

She said she had received the information from Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova.

According to Moskalkova, the Ukrainian servicemen have received medical assistance, “they can walk, and they are given food,” Denisova said.

In his words, the Ukrainian sailors will be held in two-bunk cells of 8 square meters in Lefortovo, and their cellmates will be “first offenders.”

Denisova added that Moskalkova disagreed with the term “prisoner of war” used in regard to the Ukrainian sailors detained by Russia in their phone conversation.