Halya Coynash: Where is Russia’s ‘Minsk implementation’ while so many Ukrainians remained imprisoned?
Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov is seen inside of the defendant's cage in a military courtroom during the second hearing in the southwestern city of Rostov-on-Don on July 27, 2015.
It is excellent that Nadiya Savchenko has been freed after nearly 2 years in Russian captivity. EU and US attempts to attribute this to Russia's willingness to implement the Minsk Agreement do, however, seem at best optimistic. There is little or no progress on freeing the other Ukrainians unlawfully held in Russia, with the 'extradition procedure' in the case of filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, civic activist Oleksandr Kolchenko and others looking increasingly like a delaying tactic. There is also a large, and increasing number of Ukrainians, most of them Crimean Tatars, imprisoned in Russian-occupied Crimea.
