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UNIAN: Ukraine protests against Moscow’s decision to extend detention term for sailors

By UNIAN.

Published Jan. 16, 2019. Updated Jan. 16 at 1:34 pm

A worker decorates the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine on July 2, 2016, in Kyiv.

Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine expresses its resolute protest over the illegitimate decision taken by Moscow’s Lefortovo District Court to prolong the pretrial detention of 24 Ukrainian servicemen captured by the Russian Federation in the Black Sea on November 25, 2018.