MOSCOW, June 14 (RAPSI) – Over 400 Russian citizens are currently held in Ukrainian detention facilities, according to Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova.
Earlier, Moskalkova and Ukraine’s ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova settled two lists of Ukrainian and Russian detainees they would visit. Each list includes 34 persons.
In particular, Moskalkova is going to visit journalist Kirill Vyshinsky, former military servicemen Maksim Odintsov and Alexander Baranov, and Yelena Odnovol, an activist of the Volunteers of Victory movement. All of them have been charged by Ukrainian authorities with treason.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko reached an agreement on human rights commissioners’ visits to detained compatriots during a telephone conversation on June 9.