"Let me inform that on May 22, 2015, Kyiv's Shevchenko District Court met the Ukrainian Security Service's request to put Russian citizens and servicemen with the Main Investigative Department of the General Staff of the Russian Federation captain Yevgeniy Yerofeyev and sergeant Aleksandr Aleksandrov under arrest until July 19," adviser to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Markiyan Lubkivsky wrote on Facebook.
According to him, the place of their arrest will be determined later by the SBU's Main Investigative Department because they need to complete their medical treatment.
The court hearing was open to the press, Lubkivsky stressed. "No one's access was restricted," he added.
The court decision was read out by Shevchenko District Court judge Valeria Malynovska.
The Russian soldiers' defense attorneys announced they were going to appeal against the court rulings.
As UNIAN reported earlier, two Russian Main Investigative Department officers Aleksandr Aleksandrov and Yevgeniy Yerofeyev were captured by Ukrainian servicemen near the town of Schastia in Luhansk region on May 16.
Ukrainian SBU Chief Valentyn Nalyvaichenko announced on May 18 that the two Russian servicemen would be put on trial for being in a terrorist organization.
Russia's defense ministry, like the Kremlin, earlier said that the Russian soldiers captured by the Ukrainian military in the Donbas conflict zone on May 16 were not acting servicemen of the Russian armed forces, but demanded their release.
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22/5/15
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A Kiev court on Friday remanded in custody two Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine...
ReplyDeleteJudge Valentina Malinovskaya, sitting at Shevchenkovskiy District Court, ordered Yevgeny Yerofeyev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov detained to July 19 on charges of involvement in "terrorist activity".
Both soldiers are currently being treated at Kiev military hospital for wounds sustained immediately before their capture.
Ukrainian authorities said earlier that the soldiers, who were captured near the town of Shchastya on May 16, would be put on trial rather than be treated as prisoners of war.
Kiev sent a note of protest to Moscow on Tuesday over the involvement of Russian servicemen in fighting in eastern Ukraine, local officials said.
The move came a day after Kiev posted video online of what it claimed to be the two soldiers.
Dmitriy Kuleba, an official from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, told journalists on Tuesday that the presence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine violated international law and February’s Minsk cease-fire agreement.
He demanded an explanation from Russia over the presence of Yerofeyev and Aleksandrov in Ukraine. Kiev claims they were fighting alongside pro-Russian separatists.
In the video, Yerofeyev identifies himself as a lieutenant in the Russian army, adding that his unit crossed the border into Ukraine’s Luhansk region in April...............http://www.aa.com.tr/en/rss/514955--russian-soldiers-face-trial-in-ukraine
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