Ukrainian political prisoner Oleg Sentsov has been starving in the Russian colony for 100 days. This was recalled by press secretary of the Foreign Ministry Maria Betsa on Twitter, Ukrainska Pravda reports.
“Oleg Sentsov is on his hunger strike for 100 days, a terrible figure: human’s life is of the highest value, we demand that Russia immediately release Oleg,” she wrote. Betsa also asked Ukraine’s partners and international organizations to increase pressure on the Russian Federation to free Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Sentsov was jailed in May 2014, on May 14, 2018, he went on a hunger strike demanding the release of all Ukrainian prisoners in the Russian Federation.