The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine demands from the Russian side to ensure the access of the Ukrainian consul to the citizen of Ukraine illegally sentenced in Ukraine Viktor Shura, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reported..

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine expresses its strong protest against the inhuman treatment of the Russian authorities in relation to illegally convicted in Russia of citizen of Ukraine Victor Shura and Russia's refusal to provide access Ukrainian consul to him ... once again calls on the Russian side to stop illegal actions against citizens Ukraine, who illegally held on politically motivated charges in Russia, as well as to ensure their right to meet with the consul ", - stated in the Report uu.

The Foreign Ministry noted that demanding that Shura write down in writing his legal right to meet with the consul of the Ukrainian state, "Russian jailers resorted to massacre and torture: Victor Shur was placed in a solitary confinement cell where he was held in a cold without water and Food, which entailed the deterioration of his health ".

According to media reports, Shur was detained in the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation on December 9, 2014 for insulting the law enforcement officer for 15 days, later he was charged with espionage. October 7, 2015, he was sentenced to 12 years in a strict-regime colony for espionage in favor of Ukraine.

Recall that the Ukrainian director Sentsov and activist Kolchenko detained the FSB in the Crimea in the spring of 2014. They were sent to Russia, where they were tried on a trumped-up charge of organizing terrorist attacks and arson of party offices on the peninsula. Both blamed not recognized.

On August 25, 2015, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don passed a guilty verdict against Sentsov. On the totality of crimes, the director was sentenced to 20 years in a strict-security colony.