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| Russian The Federal Penitentiary Service denied rumors about Strelkov's deteriorating health |
| 2025-09-03 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The media reports about the alleged deterioration of the health of the former head of the Ministry of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic Igor Girkin (pseudonym Strelkov ), who is serving a term, are untrue. This was reported to Izvestia on Tuesday, September 2, by the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Kirov Region. Girkin claimed since 2014 that he was instrumental in the takeover in Crimea and the war in the Donbass. “The information about Igor Strelkov’s deteriorating health is not true,” the agency’s representative said. Strelkov's wife Miroslava also confirmed this on her Telegram channel, noting that there is no talk of emergency hospitalization or critical deterioration of her husband's health. Before this, some media outlets reported that Strelkov, who was serving a sentence in a penal colony, had allegedly gotten worse. Girkin was detained in July 2023 and on January 25, 2024, the Moscow City Court sentenced him to four years in a general regime penal colony for calls for extremist activity after a series of posts on the Telegram messenger. |
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