The Holosiyivsky District Court of Kyiv is due to begin hearing the case opened against Russian citizens Alexander Alexandrov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, whom Ukraine calls special operations force soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces' Main Intelligence Department, on November 10.
Alexandrov and Yerofeyev were captured during an exchange of fire in a military operation area near Shchastya, in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, on May 16, 2015. One of them was wounded in the arm and the other in the leg.
Ukraine identified Yerofeyev and Alexandrov as Russian military servicemen. The Russian Defense Ministry acknowledged later that Alexandrov and Yerofeyev were indeed Russian citizens but insisted that they had not been on active military duty at the moment of their detention.
A Kyiv court ruled to arrest the Russians pending trial.
