'Consequences and pain': what else does the United States promise to Russia because of the Ukrainian sailors
Russia must release the Ukrainian sailors arrested after the incident in the Kerch Strait, and otherwise Moscow will have “consequences and pain”, which will “intensify” over time, results from the US State Department television channel.Rain".
He added that as long as Russia holds Ukrainian sailors, the United States will “raise the price” that Moscow “will have to pay.” “They must release the crews, return the ships, this is not a question that will leave our zone of attention,” said the representative of the US foreign ministry.
In late November, Russia detained three Ukrainian ships in the Kerch Strait and arrested 24 sailors, who were accused of illegally crossing the border. The maximum penalty for this article is six years imprisonment. Almost all the sailors are in the Lefortovo SIZO in Moscow, and the three wounded during the shooting are in the hospital at the Matrosskaya Tishina detention center.
On December 2, President Vladimir Putin said that the issue of their exchange is not being considered yet, because the investigation is not over yet. Putin also said that during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, he briefly spoke with the American leader Donald Trump and “in a nutshell” answered his questions about the incident in the Kerch Strait.
“He has his own position on these issues and problems, I have my own, we remained unconvinced, but, in any case, I informed him about our vision of the incident,” the Russian president said.
Recall that rruppa journalists Bellingcat has come concluded that the Ukrainian ships, attacked by 25 in November by ships of the border service of the FSB of Russia near the Kerch Strait, were fired at in international waters.
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