UN Maritime Tribunal orders Russia to release sailors arrested onboard Ukrainian vessels back in November

Russia must release 24 sailors it arrested onboard three Ukrainian vessels last year as they crossed a strait between Russian-annexed Crimea and southern Russia, an international maritime tribunal said on Saturday.

Al Jazeera reports that the Hamburg-based United Nation’s International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) said Russia had to release the sailors and vessels immediately.

The Russian navy captured the Ukrainian sailors and their vessels in the Kerch Strait, which links the Black and Azov seas, on November 25, 2018, after opening fire on them.

Via Al Jazeera

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