Russia Denies U.S.-Style Rendition of Ukrainian Pilot Vet

Russia denied snatching a Ukrainian female pilot to put her on trial, insisting it doesn’t follow the U.S. practice of rendition of prisoners after the government in Kiev said she was taken across the border illegally.

“This is completely different from the extra-territorial methods used by the U.S. in pursuing foreign citizens and whisking them away, as happened recently with Roman Seleznev, under U.S. law,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich told reporters in Moscow today.