Sentzov against pardon and will not write such a petition to the President of the Russian Federation The Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in a colony in Russia, will not write a petition for clemency, told Interfax on Friday his lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

"Oleg is against pardon. He will not write anything to the president, "said D. Dinze agency.

According to the lawyer, Oleg Sentsov basically lies, "since it is hard for him to move".

"All without changes. He says that basically lies, since he started having problems with the kidneys and heart. He had a crisis on the 26th day of the hunger strike. Then he was taken to a hospital where the condition was stabilized. Now he is pumped by 3-4 liters of various nutrient fluids through the catheter, because he has all the veins already beheaded by previous procedures, "explained D. Dinze.

On the eve of the lawyer told Interfax that O.

Sentsov refused to stop the hunger strike on the proposal of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don in August 2015 sentenced O. Sentsov, detained in the Crimea in 2014, to 20 years in a strict-regime colony.

Sentsov is serving a sentence in a strict-security colony in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, better known as the "Polar Bear". On May 14, he went on a hunger strike demanding the release of all Ukrainians detained in the Russian Federation.