Moscow’s Lefortovo
District Court will consider the motion to this effect on January 15.
MOSCOW, January 10.
/TASS/. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has asked to extend the
arrest of the Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait, one of the
sailors’ Defense Attorney, Sergei Badamshin, informed TASS.
"The
investigators have asked the court to extend the sailors’ arrest. Moscow’s Lefortovo
District Court will consider the motion to this effect on January 15," he
said.
On November 25, three
Ukrainian warships violated the rules of passage from the Black Sea to the Sea
of Azov. The intruding Ukrainian vessels illegally crossed the Russian state
border, trespassed into Russian territorial waters and conducted dangerous
maneuvers. In defiance of repeated warnings and demands to halt, the Ukrainian
ships carried on violating the law, which drove the Russian forces to use
gunfire in order to compel them to stop. As a result, all three vessels were
detained. The twenty-four Ukrainian nationals who were detained after the
incident have been arrested till January 25. They face charges of illegal
border crossing (Part 3, Section 322 of the Russian Criminal Code), which carry
a punishment of up to six year in prison.
Moscow branded the
incident as a provocation.
Source: ITAR-TASS
10-01-2019
