“I ordered a conversation with President Putin of Russia at night — we didn’t receive an answer,” Poroshenko quotes the TV channel 112 Ukraine.
According to him, because of this, he had to turn to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel so that she could talk with Putin about the immediate release of the detained sailors.
According to RIA Novosti, a spokesman for the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that there were no telephone contacts between the heads of state.
On November 25, the FSB reported that three Ukrainian ships had illegally crossed the Russian border, after which they were detained.