Port. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 19.77 sailors from eight Russian civilian ships are being held in Ukraine, Russian human rights ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova said. ships that are assigned to Russian ports,” Moskalkova said on Radio Russia. According to her, the sailors are in the port of the city of Izmail. “We are constantly negotiating with the Ukrainian side and we hope that they will end positively, and these people will be released. Just the other day, some of these sailors were supposed to be released, literally on May 17, but, unfortunately, this did not take place due to the fact that it was announced that the zone of silence, humanitarian corridors did not provide security. This should have happened in Zaporozhye. We we are waiting for the next stage, for our part we will apply to the international maritime organization of the United Nations, it is headed by Kitak Lim, so that the international organization also acts more actively on the release 
Nationalists are holding citizens as a shield at the direction of the West, Basurin said
