On Friday, October 26, the online publication “Gromadska” published a testament by director Oleg Sentsov, which he compiled in September during a hunger strike in the Polar Bear prison in the Yamalo-Nenets Okrug.

“I, Sentsov Oleg Gennadievich, being in my right mind and firm memory, will, in the event of my death, film screenings according to my scenarios, namely“ Rhino ”,“ Kai ”, as well as“ The Brilliant World ”written by me in captivity,“ Crows ” "and" Christie "to my fellow member and second director Eugenia Vradiy as a director," - says the text of the will (translated by the TV channel "Rain").

Also in the text of the testament it is said: "I assign my children to my successors: Alina and Vladislav Sentsov after my death as heirs and beneficiaries of my fees". The text of this document was given to the publication "Gromadska" cousin of the director Natalia Kaplan.

The very fact of writing the will Kaplan reported back in September. At the same time, she put on her Facebook page the text of a letter received from Sentsov: "I’m not believing that I will be out soon and we will happily live in Kiev. Like many other things. But this does not mean that I broke up or am going to be removed (apparently, on a hunger strike - note. I did not give up anyway, I just do not believe in the happy ending of this whole story.. My condition is about the same: stable, bad, hypoxia has now been added to all the old special effects - this is a lack of oxygen in the organs, mainly the heart and brain. Fog in the head, everything is spinning, body, head and limbs go numb. The circulatory system does not cope with the body's oxygen supply at all.. So what I became advanced in medicine! ".

Oleg Sentsov sentenced by a Russian court to 20 years in prison on charges of preparing terrorist acts in Crimea. In May, he announced a hunger strike demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners who are in Russia. He does not include himself in their number. Sentsov has been on a hunger strike for more than 120 days.. We are not talking about a “dry” hunger strike: he drinks warm water, every day he receives a drip with a solution of glucose and vitamins.

On October 25, it became known that the European Parliament decided to present the Sakharov Prize "For Freedom of Thought" to Oleg Sentsov. This prize was established in 1988 by the European Parliament in honor of Andrei Sakharov..