The crew of a Russian tanker detained in Ukraine, crossed the border to Moldova, where they will fly to the capital of Russia, said the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Tatiana Moskalkova.

"Ten Russian citizens who were in the crew of the detained vessel Nika Spirit, left the territory of Ukraine and will soon return to the Russian Federation ", - told in the Russian foreign Ministry.

the detention of the tanker responded in international organizations. So, the UN has urged Moscow and Kiev to refrain from escalation of the situation. The organization said that until not have the opportunity to conduct an independent evaluation of the circumstances of the detention of the ship.

The situation was explained to the OSCE. Authorized special monitoring mission, Dragana Nikolic-Solomon said Last news that observations on the situation with the detention of the tanker will be possible to see in the daily report.

Immediately after restrictions on the freedom of the ship a member of the state Duma on international Affairs Sergei Zheleznyak said that the Russian Federation may raise the issue of the release of the tanker in the UN security Council and other international organizations.

international court United Nations law of the sea until not received case on the detention of the ship. The authorized judicial organ Benjamin Benirschke told Last news that if a state party to the Convention claims a violation by another state party, the court may deal with the case, only if both parties consented to the jurisdiction of the judicial authority in the special contract.

Benirschke added that the court Also has supplementary jurisdiction to consider urgent matters initiated unilaterally by one state party about another - on the basis of article 290, paragraph 5, of the Convention (a request for the prescription of provisional measures) and article 292 (request for immediate release of captured ships and crew).

earlier, the SBU detained in the port of Izmail Russian tanker Nika Spirit. The Ukrainian side says that he had Previously called Neyma and as if he participated in the closing passage of the Ukrainian military ships during the conflict in the Kerch Strait.

Employees of the SBU, the military prosecutors and border guards raided the ship and confiscated the documents, records and logbooks. They also questioned the Crew.

later, the Ministry revealed that found no grounds for the detention of seafarers.

the foreign Ministry said that Moscow finds out circumstances of the conflict for appropriate action.



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