Pompeo and Lavrov discussed the fate of Sentsov

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in a telephone conversation with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov raised the question of the fate of Oleg Sentsov. The head of American diplomacy "was given appropriate explanations," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement . The State Department has not yet released the community about this conversation.

As emphasized in the Foreign Ministry, the call took place on the initiative of the American side. Lavrov "called for immediately stop the persecution of" Maria Butina, Konstantin Yaroshenko, Vyacheslav Buta and other Russians arrested in the United States. Moscow claims that they "ended up in American prisons in violation of the procedures" stipulated by a bilateral legal assistance agreement.

According to the Russian side, the conversation of Pompeo and Lavrov was mainly devoted to the situation in Syria.

The Ukrainian Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in a strict regime in the fabricated case of the Crimean Terrorists, is holding a hunger strike 102nd day demanding that all political prisoners free from Russian prisons. The State Department has repeatedly called on Moscow to fulfill this requirement. On Wednesday, the representative of the department Hezer Neurt said that the United States was deeply concerned about the state of health of Sentsov. "We are alarmed by the prospect of the death of another innocent person in a Russian prison," the story Neuert. - We hope that the Russian authorities will free Sentsov in order to avoid such a tragedy for which guilty officials will inevitably be held accountable. "

Foreign agencies of Canada and France made similar statements this week. On the hundredth day of Sentsov’s hunger strike in many countries, a new series of shares in his support was held.