Cellular speech

The lawyers of the GRU special forces Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov filed a lawsuit against the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine on the recognition of Russians by prisoners of war. According to RAPSI, this was stated by defender Erofeeva Oksana Sokolovskaya. According to her, the lawsuit was filed to the state of Ukraine in the person of the President as a guarantor of the Constitution.

The recognition of Erofeev and Alexandrov prisoners of war, Sokolovskaya believes, will avoid criminal prosecution, since, according to the Geneva Convention, special conditions of detention and exchange should be applied to prisoners of war.

According to Sokolovskaya, the third party in the lawsuit is the Security Service of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General. The court extended the arrest of Russians until January 2. Consideration of the case is scheduled for November 10.

Erofeev and Aleksandrov were captured on May 16 near the city the happiness of the Luhansk region. The Russian Ministry of Defense still refuses to admit that at the time of arrival in Ukraine they remained in the actual service, and were captured during the fulfillment of a combat mission.

The final version of the prosecution of the military was charged with part 28 - part 28 - part 2 of article 437 (waging an aggressive war by prior conspiracy by a group of persons; from 10 to 15 years of colony), part 2 of article 201 (smuggling of weapons and ammunition, committed by a group of persons; from 5 to 12 years), part 2 of article 332-1 (violation of the entry into the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine, committed by preliminary conspiracy by a group of persons; from 3 to 5 years), part 2 of Article 263 (illegal handling of weapons; up to 3 years), part 1 of Article 258-3 (assistance to the activities of a terrorist organization; from 8 to 15 years), part 3 of Article 258 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (a terrorist attack that has entailed death of a person; from 10 years to a lifelong time).

Both special forces previously stated that they reject accusations of terrorism and insisted on retraining the accusations: Erofeev - to espionage, Aleksandrov - to "illegal crossing of the state border in order to collect intelligence."

The media repeatedly extended the topic of the possible exchange of special forces on Ukrainian citizens held by Russia, in particular on the Crimean prisoners of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko. However, in mid -September, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called an unacceptable idea to exchange Erofeev and Alexandrov for Crimean prisoners. The exchange of filmmakers for captured combatants would be unequal, the head of state explained.