The access of doctors to Editor-in-chief of RIA Novosti Ukraina Kirill Vyshinsky, accused in Ukraine of treason, and the Ukrainian Pavlo Hryb accused in Russia should be synchronous, the Verkhovna Rada’s Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova has said.
Denisova said on Facebook on Wednesday that she met in Brussels with Luc Pierre Devigne, Director for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and OSCE, Deputy Managing Director for Europe and Central Asia, European External Action Service (EEAS).
“Devigne informed me that recently his representatives met with Russian Human Rights Ombudswoman Tatyana Moskalkova. During their meeting, they talked about the access of doctors to Vyshinsky who is suspected of treason. The Ukrainian side is ready to ensure these conditions in exchange for reciprocal access of doctors to the Ukrainian political prisoner Pavlo Hrib, who is in a supercritical state,” Denisova said.
Denisova said European officials said the European Union has a clear position about Ukrainian prisoners of war.
“They are convinced that our seamen have the right to protection in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law. They also expect Russia to provide appropriate medical assistance to the wounded and unrestricted access to them by consular officers,” Denisova said.
As earlier reported, ex-Ukrainian State Border Guard Service official Ihor Hryb said on August 28, 2017, that Russian special services had abducted his 19-year-old son Pavlo during a visit to Gomel, Belarus, where he went on August 24 to meet a girl whom he had met and talked to only on social-networking sites.
On September 7, 2017 media reported Hryb was in a detention facility in Krasnodar, Russia.
Hryb’s health has reportedly deteriorated and is very poor.
