For nearly a month, Russian authorities are keeping two Ukrainian border guards in a Moscow jail, denying them any contact with the consul or relatives. Ukrainian law enforcement agencies tend to believe they were abducted in order to trade them for two FSB officers captured after an illegal border crossing in South Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukrainian media write that that Russian special task forces may prepare to catch more victims from the Ukrainian military.


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The spokespersons for Ukraine should literally “yell” about the intolerable situation around Hryb and the border guards Dzyubak and Martson on every international platform, says First Deputy Head of the Ukrainian Parliament Iryna Herashchenko, who represents Ukraine in the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas conflict resolution. “Russia is continuing its tactics of taking hostages, whom she is keeping as a trump card. I’d like to call on the citizens of Ukraine, unless absolutely necessary, not to go to Russia. This can break your life.”Read also: Russian soldiers captured in Ukraine: an exchange pool for Ukrainian hostages | #LetMyPeopleGo