The Ukrainian ombudsman asks to exchange the Nord crew for Ukrainian poachers
Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova appealed to the country's President Petro Poroshenko with a request to exchange Ukrainian poachers detained off the western coast of Crimea from the YaMK-0041 vessel for crew members of the Russian seiner Nord, detained for no apparent reason by Ukrainian border guards in the Sea of Azov.
She wrote about this on her Facebook page, Lyudmila Denisova, reports PolitNavigator correspondent.
“I once again emphasized that Ukrainian citizens have been forcibly detained on the territory of the Crimean Peninsula for 2 months,” Denisova commented on her letter.
Although only the captain of the poaching ship is being held in the Simferopol pre-trial detention center, Denisova claims that the health of the entire crew is unsatisfactory, and the sailors are allegedly “under pressure from the FSB.”
Previously, Denisova tried to illegally enter the territory of a colony in Russia, where Oleg Sentsov, who is called a famous director in Ukraine, is serving a sentence for attempting to commit a terrorist attack in Crimea.
As Politnavigator previously reported, the vessel YaMK-0041 was detained by Crimean border guards in early May in the area of Cape Tarkhankut. There were five Ukrainian citizens on board.
The environmental damage caused to the Black Sea by poachers is estimated at more than 440 thousand rubles (just over 185 thousand hryvnia).
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