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Russian TV: Detained Ukrainian Sailors Taken to Moscow Prisons


An entrance of the Lefortovo prison, in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 30, 2018.
An entrance of the Lefortovo prison, in Moscow, Russia, Nov. 30, 2018.

Russia has transported 24 Ukrainian sailors captured off the coast of Crimea at the weekend to prison facilities in Moscow, Russian channel TV Rain reported on Friday.

Twenty-one of the men are being held in the Lefortovo remand prison in Moscow and three who were wounded during their capture are in a hospital wing of a jail, the channel reported, citing a public body that monitors prisons.

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