Russia seeks citizens' release from Libya MOSCOW, June 7 (UPI) -- Jailed Russian citizens in Libya have the support of their government, but the Russian foreign ministry said Thursday it had no "magic wand" to free them. Two Russian nationals and 25 from Ukraine and Belarus, all employees in Libya of the Russian oil company Dakar, were detained by Libyan rebel forces last Aug. 27, and Monday were found guilty of aiding and abetting the former Gadhafi regime in a Libyan military court, the Russian news agency ITAR-Tass said Thursday. "Our task is to have our citizens be freed as soon a possible, " said Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich Thursday, "but do not think there is a 'magic wand' to solve this problem with a wave of the hand." Alexander Shadrov, a Russian citizen who the court claimed was the leader of the group, received life imprisonment. The rest were sentenced to 10 years of "corrective labor," the news agency said.