MOSCOW, July 01. /ITAR-TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who had a telephone conversation with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, drew attention of the latter that Russian citizen Kostantin Yaroshenko kept at a U.S. prison needed urgent medical assistance, the Russian foreign ministry said.

“Lavrov drew Kerry’s attention to the necessity of urgent medical assistance to Russian citizen Kostantin Yaroshenko, who had been illegally arrested by the U.S. secret services in Liberia and take to the United States to be sentences to a long prison term,” the ministry said.