Ukraine will grant representatives of Russian diplomatic agencies access to a Russian citizen, a member of the so-called "LNR" Andrey Kosyak, who was detained in Donbas. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters at the AEF forum.
"According to international law, the consul has the right of access to a citizen of the state he represents. Such access will be granted," Kuleba said.
The minister also confirmed that the Russian Foreign Ministry's statements regarding Kosyak "are certainly an acknowledgement that Russia in various forms, in this case in the form of a Russian citizen, participates and is the only party to the international armed conflict."
As a reminder, on October 13, Russian armed formations with JCCC armbands carried out reconnaissance of abandoned AFU positions under the cover of demining operations. As a result, an operative group of the AFU detained one of the fighters - a citizen of the Russian Federation Andrey Valentinovich Kosyak, born in 1978. Weapons and ammunition were seized from him.
After the detention, "protests" began in front of a hotel in occupied Donetsk, where members of the OSCE mission reside. The organization partially stopped its observation mission in Donbas.
