Kyiv set to bring access for ICRC medics to Ukrainians at Russian prisons to intl level

18:12, 22.08.2016 1 min read

The issue of access for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) representatives to Ukrainian citizens, who are being held in Russian prisons, remains unsettled, Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada First Deputy Speaker Iryna Herashchenko has said.

"The problem of the lack of access for doctors and consuls is common for all those people, who are being held in Russia. For months our consuls have been seeking for the opportunity to get to those hostages, who are being held at the Russian prisons, doctors cannot get there for months," Herashchenko told journalists in Kyiv on Monday.

Ukraine raises at the international top level the issue of access for the ICRC doctors to Ukrainian citizens being held in Russian prisons, but this issue remains blocked as of now, she said.