15:02 12.05.2018

Ukrainian consul leaves for Yeysk to find out circumstances of detention of fishermen from Berdiansk

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Ukrainian consul leaves for Yeysk to find out circumstances of detention of fishermen from Berdiansk

The border guard service of the city of Yeysk (Russia) has refused to provide information on the whereabouts of two Ukrainian fishermen who went missing in the Sea of Azov, spokesman of the Consular Service Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vasyl Kyrylych has said.

"The border guard service of the city of Yeysk has refused to provide information about the possible stay there of Ukrainian citizens who had disappeared in the Sea of Azov. The consul left to find out the reasons and circumstances of the detention and demand that they immediately be released," Kyrylych told Interfax-Ukraine Saturday.

As reported, two fishermen from Berdiansk (Zaporizhia region), who went missing in the Sea of Azov for a day, have probably been detained by Russian border guards and stay in the city of Yeysk, the Krasnodar Krai.

The press service of the main directorate of the State Emergency Service in Zaporizhia region told Interfax-Ukraine that the wife of one of the two fishermen, who went to the Sea of Azov by a motorboat on May 10 and did not return, called the duty department of the Berdiansk department of the National Police at 18:26 on May 11. The woman told the police that she had received a phone call from the Russian border guard service about the detention of her husband and his friend and that they stayed in the city of Yeysk.

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