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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved an extended sanction list of persons involved in illegal sentencing and other unlawful actions against Ukrainian citizens. The list was tabled with the National Security and Defense Council for endorsement.
Russia is holding 12 Ukrainian political prisoners, and 16 more are being detained in the annexed Crimea, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said on Friday, June 17.
President Petro Poroshenko congratulated everyone on Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko’s return and said that other detainees Afanasyev and Soloshenko would be the next to be released, due to severe health problems such as cancer and sepsis.
Hennadiy Afanasyev and Yuriy Soloshenko, two Ukrainians convicted in Russia, have been transferred to Moscow after a request for their extradition to Ukraine was submitted to the Russian Federation.