“The embassy has not yet received formal notification from the judiciary about the completion of the trial and the conviction,” the mission said on Facebook.
According to media reports, Russian sailors Konstantin Semyonov and Ivan Voznikovtsev were sentenced in Greece to 253 years in prison each for transporting illegal migrants.
While awaiting trial, they were held in the Athenian prison of Koridallos.
Earlier it was reported that the Turkish authorities have banned refugees from crossing the sea border with Greece.