MOSCOW, June 22 (RAPSI) – Russian consul has been denied the opportunity to visit journalist Kirill Vyshinsky detained in Ukraine on treason charges, the press service of Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Tatiana Moskalkova has told RAPSI.

The ombudsman received this information from the Foreign Ministry of Russia, the statement reads.

Currently, Russia’s ombudsman and her Ukrainian colleague Lyudmila Denisova are engaged in negotiations over visiting detainees and prisoners in both countries. The talks are aimed at alignment of positions on joint visits to prisons and detention centers on a parity basis and reaching a compromise on this point, according to Moskalkova’s press office.

Earlier, Moskalkova said that Denisova refused a meeting scheduled on June 16 in Omsk. The ombudsmen were to come to an agreement on meeting Russian and Ukrainian prisoners and to discuss the situation of Dmitry Shtyblikov, sentenced to 5 years in a high security penal colony for preparing sabotage in Crimea. Moskalkova proposed her to renew cooperation.

According to a previous agreement, Moskalkova and Denisova settled two lists of Ukrainian and Russian detainees they were to visit. Each list included 34 persons.

In particular, Moskalkova was going to visit  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.