Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses protest over arrest of Pavlo Hryb in Russia

This has been reported on the Foreign Ministry's website.

"The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry expresses its strong protest over the decision made by the Oktiabrskiy District Court in the city of Krasnodar of the Russian Federation on December 15, 2017 to extend the term of detention of the illegally detained Ukrainian citizen, Pavlo Hryb, until March 4, 2018," the report reads.

As reported, the court in the city of Krasnodar of the Russian Federation extended the arrest of Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb until March 4, 2018, his father Ihor Hryb told Hromadske portal.

Pavlo Hryb disappeared in Belarus on August 24. Later it became known that he was kidnapped by Russian intelligence services and transferred to the Krasnodar detention facility (Russia).

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