The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has made a decision obliging the Russian Federation to release three Ukrainian vessels and 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the Kerch Strait in November 2018 and allow them to return to Ukraine.
Judge Jin-Hyun Paik announced the award on the imposition of interim measures against Russia asked by the Ukrainian side in Hamburg (Germany) on May 25.
The Russian Federation must immediately release the Ukrainian military ships Berdyansk, Nikopol and Yany Kapu tug and return them to Ukraine, he read.
A total of 19 judges voted in favor of this decision, one judge – Ruslan Kolodkin (the Russian Federation) voted against the decision.
Also, it was decided that “the Russian Federation must immediately release 24 Ukrainian servicemen detained and allow them to return to Ukraine.”
