The lawyer of Russian Evgeny Erofeev Oksana Sokolovsky asks the court to stop criminal proceedings against the Russian citizens to the choices in the Supreme administrative court of Ukraine, their status.

before Sokolov said that he had filed a lawsuit against the President of Ukraine on recognition of Russia's citizens prisoners of war, which precludes their prosecution.

"I understand that the distinguished panel of judges will not close the criminal proceedings at the current stage, because the issue is not resolved in the Supreme administrative court of Ukraine. But to stay in the future of the right to freedom of man and citizen, and among them the status of foreign Residents within Ukraine, which I think of prisoners, I think it possible to stop production, there are exceptional questions to stop, " said Sokolowski.

She clarified, because it is necessary to the definition of their official status within Ukraine.

Ukrainian Military in the Donbass tied like 2 Russian military on may 16. In the Russian defense Ministry said that the detainees - Alexander Erofeev and - are residents of the Russian Federation, But at the time of detention they were not active military personnel military power of the Russian Federation.

more recently, the court in Kiev passed the decision on placing under arrest of citizens of Russia, they were brought a variety of charges, including terrorism and incitement to military conflict. The court then granted the request of the prosecution about the citizens of Russia about the direction of the case for consideration under this in Goloseevsky district court.

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