A lawyer Nikolai Polozov said that three more Ukrainian three Ukrainian seamen POWs Yevgeny Semidotsky, Andrey Eider and Sergey Popov – were scheduled for an outpatient psychological and psychiatric examination. He reported about it on his Facebook page.
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"The defense objected to the appointment of this examination. However, taking into consideration that the investigation is not going to respond positively to the objections of the lawyers, they filed petitions for the presence of lawyers during the examination of POWs", – wrote the lawyer.
He added that in total, for this day, the investigation appointed an outpatient psychological and psychiatric examination of 11 Ukrainian seamen prisoners of war. Earlier, an outpatient psychological and psychiatric examination was scheduled to Sergey Tsybizov, Roman Mokryak, Yuriy Bezyazychny, Vladislav Kostyshin, Vladimir Varimez, Sergey Chulib, Vasily Soroka and Viktor Bespalchenko.
Recall on November 25, 2018, the border ships of the Russian Federation carried out open aggressive actions against three Ukrainian ships during their transition from the port of Odessa to the port of Mariupol in the Sea of Azov. In particular, the Russian border boat "Don" committed a ram of the raid tug "Yany Kapu." Small armored artillery boats "Berdyansk" and "Nikopol" were hit by the enemy fire and lost their course. The raid tug "Yany Kapu" was also forced to a halt. As a result, the ships were captured by Russian special forces. Several Ukrainian soldiers were injured. The Russian Federal Security Service Directorate for Crimea accused the Ukrainian side of "dangerous maneuvers" during their visit "to the temporarily closed water area of the territorial sea of Russia".
The Prosecutor’s Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea recognized Ukrainian seamen captured by the FSB of Russia as prisoners of war. All the detained Ukrainian sailors were taken to Crimea and arrested on November 27 and 28 until January 25, 2019.
Later it became known that the Ukrainian sailors were transferred from Crimea to Moscow. On January 15-16, 2019, the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow extended the detention periods to all captured Ukrainian seamen prisoners of war. Twenty-one POWs will remain in custody until April 24, and three injured during the seizure of Ukrainian ships will remain until April 26, 2019.