OREANDA-NEWS. The Russian seamen of the tanker, who were arrested in the port of Izmail, near Odessa, left the territory of Ukraine. Tatyana Moskalkova, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, informed about this. She, in turn, relied on the words of her Ukrainian counterpart, Lyudmila Denisova.

  She also noted that there was no official arrest, nor were any procedural requirements put forward in relation to a criminal or civil violation. SBU checked the documentation of the detainees and released.

The Russian Embassy in Kiev confirmed that the sailors from the detained ship back home.

The Russian side pointed out the illegality of the detention of the ship and called on President Vladimir Zelensky rather to speak about what is happening. Senator Konstantin Kosachev said that the security service of Ukraine or acts with the sanction of their President or not.