The European Union condemns the unlawful sentence passed by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upon Ukrinform correspondent Roman Sushchenko and demands his immediate release.
“Yesterday (Sept. 12), the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict in the case of Roman Sushchenko, a correspondent of the Ukrainian National News Agency ‘Ukrinform’, with a sentence of 12 years in a maximum security penal colony on charges of espionage. We, as the European Union, have underscored our expectations that the Russian Federation would immediately release all the Ukrainian citizens who were illegally detained on the territory of the Crimean peninsula and in Russia,” a representative of the European Union said in a commentary to a Ukrinform correspondent.
