PM says Justice Ministry sent a request to Russian side to transfer Oleh Sentsov, Yurii Soloshenko, Olexander Kolchenko and Hennadii Afanasiev to Ukraine

posted 10 March 2016 15:52

The Ministry of Justice has sent a request to the Russian side asking to transfer Oleh Sentsov, Yurii Soloshenko, Olexander Kolchenko and Hennadii Afanasiev, who were illegally sentenced by the Russian regime, to Ukraine. At a Cabinet’s meeting, on Thursday, March 10, Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk appealed to the Foreign Ministry "to join this case so that Western partners supported the request of the Ukrainian side."