BERLIN: An international tribunal is due to rule Saturday on a dispute over Russia's holding 24 Ukrainian sailors and three naval vessels seized off the Crimea peninsula late last year.
Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko insisted the sailors were"prisoners of war" and described their detention as"blatant proof that Russia continues to show cynical disrespect for human rights". Russia has denied any wrongdoing and said it does not recognise the jurisdiction of the court, a body with 168 signatories created under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, over the case.
Russia has argued that the rights of the Ukrainian sailors have been strictly observed, including access to legal aid and medical attention.
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