KYIV. Aug 14 (Interfax) - The medical workers at the penitentiary in Labytnangi where filmmaker Oleh Sentsov is serving his sentence are doing what they can for him but are not making any predictions concerning his condition, prominent Russian human rights activist Zoya Svetova said after visiting Sentsov in an interview shown on the television channel RTVI.
"The doctors at the penitentiary, whom Sentsov trusts, are doing what they can do, but they are not making any forecasts. A lawyer said he's getting a nutritional mixture through a drip, but this is a situation that can't save his life," Svetova said.
Svetova said her conversation with Sentsov in the presence of the head of the penitentiary administration and two employees lasted about two hours. She said Sentsov is currently in a "good and clean" room with four beds.
He is still determined to continue his hunger strike, she said.
In August 2015, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don ruled to sentence Sentsov, who was detained in Crimea in 2014, to 20 years in a maximum-security penal colony on terrorism charges.
Sentsov has been on a hunger strike since May 14, 2018, demanding that all Ukrainian citizens held in Russia "for political reasons" be released.
His relatives say that his health has seriously deteriorated.