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EU Observer: EU steps up pressure on Russia over Ukraine

By EU Observer.

Published Jan. 31, 2019 at 10:53 am

A Russia's FSB security service officer escorts a detained Ukrainian sailor to a courthouse in Simferopol, Crimea, on Nov. 27, 2018.

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Europe has stepped up pressure on Russia to free Ukrainian sailors, amid concern of a potential flare-up in Russian violence.

“We expect Russia to immediately and unconditionally release the 24 captured Ukrainian sailors,” the EU’s ambassador to Russia, Markus Ederer, told Russian deputy foreign minister Aleksandr Grushko in Moscow on 31 January.