Families of Ukrainian national whom Russia holds in captivity as political prisoners were picketing the Russian Embassy in Ukraine, rallying against the celebration on the embassy’s premises of the Day of the Russian FSB Security Service on Friday, an UNIAN correspondent reported.
The arrests and demonstrative punishment of Ukrainian nationals by Russian special services are among the tools of Russia’s hybrid war against Ukraine, according to British MP Robert Seely, who spoke at the discussion titled “Russia’s Hybrid Warfare and Ukrainian Political Prisoners” held in British Parliament November 20, Voice of America reports.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin has called on the countries of the European Union and the G7 to send their representatives to the court hearing in the case of the Ukrainian teenager Pavlo Hryb, whom the FSB had abducted from Belarus and who is now being tried on trumped up “terrorism” charges.
The Russian Ombudsperson has been ignoring inquiries on the status of Ukrainian citizen Pavlo Hryb, who is being tried in Krasnodar after being abducted by Russian intelligence operatives in Belarus, that’s according to Valeriya Lutkovska, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, RBC-Ukraine reports.
The recent move by the Russian authorities to deny access of Ukrainian doctors to the 19-year-old Ukrainian citizen Pavo Hryb, who is being held in custody in Krasnodar after his abduction from Belarus, makes Russia fully responsible for his life, the Ukrainian foreign ministry stated in a comment on the extension of the teenager’s arrest.