Oleg Sentsov in August 2020 Europa Press / Contact / Hennadii M | EUROPAPRESS
The documentary filmmaker volunteered to join the Ukrainian army at the start of the 2022 Russian invasion.
The director, a former Russian political prisoner and now a soldier of the Ukrainian armed forces, Oleg Sentsov was wounded by shrapnel this Sunday in the fight in Ukraine, which he himself confirmed. For now, there are no further details about his health.
“That was yesterday. I feel better today. In the hospital with other boys», he said in a message on Facebook, to which he attached a video taken just after the injury. Three more Ukrainian fighters were wounded in the attack.
Ukrainian director, former political prisoner of the Russian Federation, and now a soldier of the armed forces Oleg Sentsov, suffered a concussion on Saturday at the front
The warrior recorded the video lying down right after he suffered a concussion. He said he… pic.twitter.com/5r5DFxBeqm
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Sentsov, born in Crimea in 1976, was arrested in 2014 after the annexation of the peninsula to Russia, for alleged planning of terrorist attacks. In addition, Russia accused him of belonging to the ultra-nationalist movement Right Sector, and He was sentenced in 2015 to 20 years in prison.
In 2019, as part of the agreement on the release of prisoners, Sentsov released after he denied all the charges against him and denounced that he suffered torture to force his confession. After the start of the Russian army’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the director introduced himself He voluntarily joined the Ukrainian armed forcesand currently holds the rank of lieutenant.
Source: La Vozde Galicia
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