Transfer of Ukrainian sailors from Crimea violates Geneva Convention – lawyer

Russian lawyer Nikolai Polozov said this in comments to the 112 Ukraine TV channel.

"The Russian Federation already violates the rules of the Geneva Convention, when it treats war prisoners as criminals. There should be no remand prisons — they were to be taken to a special camp for war prisoners in accordance with international treaties. The fact that they are secretly taken somewhere is also the absolute violation," he said.

According to Russian independent television channel Dozhd, 21 Ukrainian sailors captured in the Kerch Strait on November 25 were taken to Moscow's Lefortovo Prison and three others to the hospitals of the Matrosskaya Tishina prison.

Earlier, Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Liudmyla Denisova said she had received information that all Ukrainian sailors who were held at Simferopol's detention center had been sent to Moscow.

On November 25, Russian border ships committed aggressive actions against Ukrainian vessels that set sail from the port of Odesa to the port of Mariupol. Russian special forces fired on and captured three Ukrainian ships and 24 sailors in the Kerch Strait.

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