The majority of the Russian sailors seized from their cargo ship off the Libyan city of Zawia last month have been released, Russia’s deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov confirmed this week.
Bogdanov was in Tripoli on Tuesday for a series of meetings with Presidency Council (PC) head Fayez Al-Sarraj.
He confirmed that five of the seven crew members of the Russian cargo vessel MV Merle have been released.
This comes after appeals made to a Misratan-led delegation in Moscow last week by Bogdanov and Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.
The ship was boarded by the Libyan coastguard on 5 March and is still being kept …read more
Source: Middle East Monitor
