Basmanny was arrested in absentia by the Moscow City Court employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. They are accused of attempting to kidnap volunteers who participated in the fighting on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
Vyacheslav Orehov, Dmitry Šimansky and Vladislav Gavriš were arrested.
For restrictive measures in in the form of absence, detention for two months was chosen, the court said. All three are charged with a number of serious and particularly serious crimes: murder committed in a generally dangerous manner, robbery, illegal arming, illegal border crossing and also kidnapping by an organized group.