1517274322.jpg

KIEV, March 30 - RIA Novosti. A Ukrainian court has arrested a Crimean fishing vessel "Nord" detained earlier by Ukrainian border guards, press secretary of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Larisa Sargan said.

"We continue to work on the detained vessel" Nord ", in particular, today the court granted the request of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (the structure of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine - Ed.), Which arrested the violator's vessel," Sargan wrote on Twitter.

Ukrainian border guards detained "Nord" on March 25 in the Azov Sea and taken to the port of Berdyansk. There are ten crew members on board, all of them citizens of Russia. The shipowner, the production cooperative "Fishing Collective named after May 1" (Kerch), said that the vessel was detained unlawfully, and the actions of the border guard service are dangerous for the life and safety of seamen.

Law enforcers launched a criminal case under the Criminal Code of Ukraine "Violation of the order of entry into and exit from temporarily occupied territory", the sanction of which provides for up to five years of imprisonment.

The crew was forbidden to leave the ship. According to the owner of the ship, food, water and fuel supplies are running out.

The Crimean department of the Federal Security Service instituted criminal proceedings under Article 211 of the Criminal Code "The loss of an air or water transport vessel or railway rolling stock". The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded that Kiev immediately release the crew members and return the vessel to the rightful owner.

Link: https://ria.ru/world/20180330/1517653661.html