Like their predecessors, the new MEPs on Thursday 18 July called on the Russian authorities to release "without further delay and unconditionally" Ukrainian citizens "illegally and arbitrarily" detained both in Russia and in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The joint resolution of the Greens/EFA, ECR, S&D, EPP and Renew Europe groups, adopted by 458 votes to 80 with 89 abstentions, in the presence, in the gallery, of former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Minister for European...