KIEV, Feb. 4 – The Foreign Ministry has confirmed earlier reports that two employees of Ukraine's state-owned arms exporter Ukrspecexport had been detained in Kazakhstan, and said that the officials have been arrested for 10 days.
"On January 28, a hearing took place at a district court in Astana, during which it was decided to prolong the detainees' arrest to 10 days for additional investigatory proceedings," Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevhen Perebyinis told an Interfax-Ukraine reporter.
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