Los Angeles, Aug 10 : Actor Steven Seagal has visited a Russian prison in Ukraine in the midst of the current Russian incursion of Ukraine. The actor was photographed in the Russian-controlled prison camp , where fifty Ukrainian prisoners were killed according to aceshowbiz.com.
Photos emerged of Seagal sitting in the prison’s wrecked structure and seated on a bench while examining shrapnel.
There is also a photo of the 70-year-old actor speaking to Ukrainian prisoners via metal bars.
The trip to the Russian-run prison in Olenivka, Ukraine came just a few days following an explosion that killed at fifty people there on the 29th of July.The jail was home to hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners at the time of the explosion.
If that’s not shocking enough, Seagal, who is a prominent advocate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was banned from entering Ukraine for five years in 2017 after Putin granted him his the right to citizenship.He also personally gave him a Russian passport in 2016, following he publicly backed Russia’s annexed of Crimea.
He has also been praised by Putin as having been “one of the greatest world leaders even if not the greatest world leader living today.”
His ties to Russia caused controversy with Americans who considered it a travesty towards the United States.
The “Hard to Kill” actor moved to Moscow after he was granted Russian citizenship, while retaining his American citizenship.In May of 2018, he was appointed Russia’s special representative to the US.
He officially joined the Russian pro-Kremlin political party in May 2021.
In the midst of the war, Russia was planning to launch an attack against Ukraine and the Ukraine was threatened, the father of seven children reportedly concluded the purchase of his 20-year-old Northern California ranch.In February he said to Fox News of the conflict, “Most of us have relatives and friends in Russia as well as Ukraine.”
He also said: “I look at both as a single family and believe that it’s an outsider that is spending enormous amounts of money in propaganda to create a situation that causes the two nations to be in conflict with each one.”
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