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Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin has forwarded a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking for his assistance in the release of Ukrainians, the Kremlin's political prisoners, according to the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations.
"During the meeting, FM Pavlo Klimkin handed over to the UN Secretary-General an open appeal from the Association of Relatives of Political Prisoners of the Kremlin, and asked to his good office in facilitating the release of Ukrainian citizens who are being illegally detained in Russia," the mission wrote on Twitter.
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According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, about 60 Ukrainian citizens, persecuted for political reasons, are being illegally held in detention facilities in Russia.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Klimkin said at a meeting of the UN Security Council that sanctions against oligarchs from Putin's entourage would force the Russian Federation to agree to a real peacekeeping mission in Donbas.