SIMFEROPOL, November 28. /TASS/. A Simferopol court has ruled to arrest Vladimir Lisoviy, one of the seamen who had been detained in the Kerch Strait for breaching the Russian state border, for two months, a TASS correspondent reported.

"To impose pre-trial detention on Vladimir Lisovoi <...> until January 25 2019," the judge stated.

There were earlier reports that nine of the detained Ukrainian navy crewmembers will have their day in court on Wednesday. On Tuesday, the court imposed two-month pre-trial detentions on 15 of them.