Ukraine will complain about Russia to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

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Recently we toldhow the Lefortovo court of Moscow received requests to extend the arrest of 24 Ukrainian sailors. The court session is scheduled for April 17, 2019. And now, it became known that Ukraine will send an appeal to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea regarding its sailors detained by the Russian authorities in the Kerch Strait on November 18, 2018. This was written on his Facebook by the still acting “guarantor” Petro Poroshenko.



Poroshenko clarified that on April 16, 2019, he gave the Foreign Ministry a personal order to turn to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea with a similar request.

In a matter of weeks, the tribunal will oblige Russia to release Ukrainian sailors and Ukrainian ships, and Moscow’s actions will be recognized as illegal

he said hopefully.

Why Kiev sends the appeal to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea just now, Poroshenko did not specify. “Guarantor” in its repertoire. First, he directed the sailors to a provocation dangerous for shipping, well aware of the consequences for the performers, and then (all the time after what happened), he tried to get from this political dividends. Now he writes that a “trial” is taking place in Moscow, which once again demonstrates that Russia does not respect human rights. After which Poroshenko generally embarks on frankly pathos verbiage, which has become his hallmark.

If for the Russian Federation this is a political game and blackmail, for us it is a struggle for the fate of our citizens and respect for the requirements of international law. No matter how the aggressor swears, his actions are already firmly constrained by the measures we have taken - this is diplomatic pressure, the ECHR procedures, and the mechanism for the forced settlement of the dispute in accordance with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

- wrote Poroshenko.

After that, he added that Russia still has a chance to free Ukrainian sailors, without waiting for the official recognition of the "international crime committed by the Kremlin." That is, Poroshenko began simultaneously blackmailing Russia in his favorite manner and begging for the release of sailors before the second round of presidential elections in Ukraine.

In turn, the Russian leadership has repeatedly reported that the last point in the "case of seafarers" put the Russian court. At the same time, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry believes that the arrest of sailors is unlawful, since "naval vessels and their crews are endowed with absolute immunity." You can’t even argue, because in 1941 sailors of the Third Reich also thought that they had “absolute immunity”.
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