As one of the measures to influence the Kiev authorities on the issue of the release of seamen from the seized by the border guard of the Nezalezhnaya Kerch fishing seiner "Nord", Russia must close the passage through the Kerch Strait for Ukrainian vessels. With this proposal made by the State Duma deputy from the Crimea Mikhail Sheremet, said "Kryminform on Friday, April 6. Earlier today, the city court of Kherson arrested the captain of the "Nord" Vladimir Gorbenko for two months. At present, the Mariupol court is considering the administrative cases of the remaining 9 crew members of the Russian ship. "We have enough levers, including not military ones, to solve the issue of returning our citizens to their homeland. Up to the closure of the Kerch Strait - grievous to beat them for such unlawful actions against citizens of the Russian Federation. I believe that this is normal.

(Block) until justice is restored and our guys and ship return to their homeland. I do not see any other way out of the situation for the moment, "Sheremet believes.. According to him, Ukraine in this process violates the rules of law and morality, while at every step declares its desire to move to Europe and to democracy. He defined what was happening with the Crimean ship as a purposeful provocation to engage the Ukrainians in some new history. "Today it is useless to talk with the leadership of Ukraine. They have their puppeteers who sit behind the hill and pull the strings. This is absolutely undemocratic and independent state, "Sheremet believes.. The former Crimean prosecutor, and now the State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, also sharply expressed her opinion, suggesting that large-scale inspections in the Republic should begin on the legality of doing business, acquiring and using property by Ukrainian officials and human rights defenders, including members of their families and their affiliates. "Among which, by the way, the human rights commissioner in Ukraine Lyudmila Denisova, who is silent on this situation, and other officials," noted Poklonskaya. In addition, she asks law enforcement officers to initiate cases of hostage-taking in connection with the detention of the Ukrainian special services "Nord". "Today, the Ukrainian criminal government brazenly, cynically fulfills the transatlantic will of its masters and tries to draw Russia into an open conflict by mass kidnappings and keeping our people hostage - Crimeans. That is why I appealed to the competent authorities - the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation and the FSB - with a request to take a procedural decision on the fact of committing a crime under article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: "The seizure of hostages" - members of the crew of the fishing vessel "Nord," she said.. It should be recalled that as early as March 29, the FSB opened a criminal case under the article on the theft of water transport. The return of the crew and the vessel to their homeland is handled both by the authorities of the Crimea, and by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Today the head of the Republic Sergei Aksyonov personally met with relatives of Russian fishermen captured by Ukrainian pirates.

The meeting was closed.

And in the morning on Friday it became known that the government of the Crimea has already transferred 100 thousand rubles to the families of the crew. As for the arrested Captain Gorbenko, to whom the Ukrainian side imposes a criminal article on alleged violation of the order of entry and exit from the "occupied territory of Ukraine", he can be released on bail, but only after the weekend. Now it is located in a temporary detention facility, until the arrival of a pledge in the amount of 78 thousand. to account. Lawyers contributed money around 5:00 pm on Friday.