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Russian TV: Detained Ukrainian Sailors Taken to Moscow Prisons

by Reuters

   MOSCOW --

   Russia has transported 24 Ukrainian sailors captured off the coast of
   Crimea at the weekend to prison facilities in Moscow, Russian channel
   TV Rain reported on Friday.
   Twenty-one of the men are being held in the Lefortovo remand prison in
   Moscow and three who were wounded during their capture are in a
   hospital wing of a jail, the channel reported, citing a public body
   that monitors prisons.