NSDC: Rostov Region still holds Ukrainian militaries

As stated by Andrei Lysenko, the spokesman of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, 46 militaries – 18 officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 28 border guard officers – are still kept by force in the territory of Rostov Region of the Russian Federation.

According to his story, Russian investigators try "to knock out confessions from Ukrainian officers of the fact that they had deliberately shelled the territory of Russia."

"According to operative information, five our officers have been accused of it, arrested and taken into police custody," the "Interfax-Ukraine" quotes Andrei Lysenko as saying today.

As reported by Vitaly Moskalenko, the Consul General of Ukraine in Rostov-on-Don, five officers of the Ukrainian army, who has crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border earlier this week, are kept in the dwelling settlements of Donetsk and Kamenka in the Rostov Region.

"Our people tried to meet the detainees. I hereby declare that the five officers of the Ukrainian armed forces are kept in custody absolutely groundlessly," the "Interfax-South" quotes the diplomat as saying.

According to Pavel Petrenko, the Minister of Justice, Kiev is ready to go to the UN and the European Court of Human Rights should it prove impossible to return the Ukrainian militaries, who occurred in Russian territory and were later detained by Russian law enforcers, to their homeland through diplomatic channel, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.