On Friday 19 January, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service called for the release of "all illegally detained Ukrainian citizens in the illegally-annexed Crimean peninsula and in Russia (...) as swiftly as possible".
In a press release, the spokesperson also stated that on 16 January, Volodymyr Balukh, "known to have opposed the illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula by the Russian Federation", was sentenced to three years and seven months in a penal colony by a...