Moscow court extended arrest to 24 sailors
The Lefortovo Court of Moscow renewed the detention to another 12 Ukrainian seamen prisoners of war. They will stay in prison until 24 April, 2019.
The United Group on Public Observation over constitutional freedoms in Twitter reported about it.
«The judge Galimova also extended the custody to Yury Budzylo, Bogdan Nebylitsa, Sergey Chulib and Yury Bezyazychny until April 24,» the statement says.
Later, the court prolonged the imprisonment to four more sailors.
«Melnichuk Oleg, Artemenko Andrey, Eyder Andrey and Soroka Vasily are remained in prison upon the judge Kaneva’s decision until April 24,” it was added in the Group.
So, the Moscow court has already extended the arrest to 20 Ukrainian seamen prisoners of war.
Earlier, the custody was renewed to 12 Ukrainian sailors. They will remain in the pretrial detention center until April 24.
As you know, the Ukrainian sailors named themselves the prisoners of war and refused to testify at the hearing. The Moscow court dismissed to change the case jurisdiction over Ukrainian sailors to a military court.
As ATR reported, Russian military forces captured three ships of the Naval Forces of Ukraine around the Kerch Strait on 25 November, 2018. During the Russia’s attack, 24 prisoners of war were highjacked. All of them were arrested in Crimea then illegally delivered to Russia. 21 sailors are being held in the Lefortovo detention center of Moscow, and three more are kept in the Matrosskaya Tishina.
