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U.S.President Donald Trump has said on Twitter that he is cancelling his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin because of the Ukraine crisis.
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Another update on the Kerch Strait incident from RFE/RL's news desk:
Unknown Number Of Captured Ukrainian Sailors Transferred To Moscow, Say Lawyers
An unknown number of 24 sailors from three Ukrainian naval vessels captured by Russia in the Sea of Azov last weekend have been transferred to a detention center in Moscow, one of their lawyers says.
Dzhemil Temishev wrote on Facebook on November 29 that his "colleagues" in the Lefortovo detention center in Moscow had informed him that some of the Ukrainian sailors had been brought there.
"They are being taken to Moscow's Lefortovo prison," Temishev said.
Emine Avamilyeva, another lawyer defending the sailors, said the Ukrainians were "taken by plane" to Moscow.
The lawyers could not say if all or only some of the sailors were being transferred.
There was no reaction from Russian authorities.
Well-known Crimean activist Nariman Dzhelyal told RFE/RL earlier on November 29 that wounded Ukrainian sailors who were seized on November 25 by Russian forces off the coast of the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula, had been transferred from the
city of Kerch to the Crimean capital, Simferopol.
Russia's TASS news agency reported the same day that three Ukrainian officers wounded in the incident had been released from hospital in Kerch.
Earlier this week, a court in Russia-controlled Simferopol ordered 15 of the captured sailors to be held in pretrial detention for two months despite international calls for their release.
The Ukraine-controlled Prosecutor's Office of Crimea called the captured Ukrainian sailors prisoners of war.
Kyiv said that on November 25, Russian forces opened fire on a group of its ships near Crimea, striking two warships and wounding six crew members before seizing the vessels along with a Ukrainian Navy tugboat.
With reporting by the Crimean Desk of RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, TASS and AFP
Pretty disquieting...
Here's more on the new Crimea travel restrictions that have just been announced by Kyiv (courtesy of RFE/RL correspondent Christopher Miller and Reuters)
Ukraine To Only Allow Ukrainian Citizens To Travel To Crimea
Ukraine's border service has said that it would only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea following the imposition of martial law. Kyiv introduced martial law in 10 of its regions for 30 days on November 28 after Russian forces fired on Ukrainian ships and seized 23 sailors in the Black Sea off the coast of the Russian-controlled Crimean Peninsula.
"In connection with the introduction of martial law, the administrative border with temporarily occupied Crimea can be crossed exclusively with Ukrainian documents," a spokesman said on November 29.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on NATO to send ships to the Sea of Azov to help protect Ukraine.
He claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin sees himself as a "Russian emperor" and Ukraine as a Russian "colony."
Lter on November 29. the Ukrainian president tweeted that Kyiv will impose "restrictions" on Russian citizens in Ukraine.
"No need to run to shops and buy matches and salt. There will be no restrictions on cash withdrawals, currency-exchange operations, travels abroad for Ukrainian citizens. For Russian citizens, these restrictions will be introduced. And I think that's quite justified," he wrote.
Relations between Moscow and Kyiv have deteriorated after Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and shortly thereafter began supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine in a conflict that has left more than 10,300 dead since April 2014.
More martial law fallout: Arsenal's Europa League match against Vorskla Poltava has been moved to Kyiv because of the security situation.
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Ukraine's border service says it would only allow Ukrainian citizens to travel to Crimea following the imposition of martial law.
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