21 Ukrainian sailors taken to Moscow's Lefortovo jail, three more to hospital - Russian media

The report notes that a Dozhd correspondent and member of Moscow's public monitoring commission, Kogershin Sagieva, visited the arrested Ukrainians at Lefortovo, where she was informed about the hospitalization of three wounded sailors.

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 Friday, November 30, the so-called human rights commissioner in Crimea, Lyudmila Lubina, told Russian media that the sailors captured in the Kerch Strait would be transferred to a prison in Moscow.

Kyivsky District Court of Simferopol arrested 21 Ukrainian sailors until January 25, 2019. Three other sailors, who stayed in a Kerch hospital, were arrested by Kerch City Court. They will also remain under arrest until January 25, 2019. Ukrainian sailors face up to six years in prison. 

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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