SIMFEROPOL. Nov 27 (Interfax) - The military sailors from the three Ukrainian naval vessels detained by the Russian border guard near the Kerch Strait for violating Russia's border on Sunday evening were kept at a military jail in a garrison in eastern Crimea, Crimean Human Rights Commissioner Lyudmila Lubina said.
"They were held at a military jail, on the grounds of a military garrison," Lubina told journalists at the Kyivsky District Court in Simferopol on Tuesday.
The court is expected to choose a pretrial restrictive measure for 12 sailors on Tuesday, and nine others are expected to be brought to the court on Wednesday.
Three wounded sailors are currently in a hospital.
If the court rules to remand the sailors in custody, they will be held at the Simferopol pretrial detention facility, Lubina said.
The Russian border guard used weapons to detain the tug Yany Kapu and the armored gunboats Berdyansk and Nikopol on their way from Odesa in the Black Sea to Mariupol in the Sea of Azov on November 25. The vessels were escorted to Kerch.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a criminal case over illegal border crossing.