Noted Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov says he was wounded by shrapnel while fighting alongside Ukrainian armed forces against Russian occupying troops in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region. Sentsov wrote on Facebook on July 17 that shrapnel was removed from his face but “small pieces in my arm and leg will stay with me forever.” The 47-year native of Crimea was arrested by Russian authorities in 2014, shortly after Moscow illegally annexed the Ukrainian peninsula, and sentenced to 20 years in prison on terrorism charges amid an international outcry. He was released in a prisoner swap in 2019. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Crimea.Realities, click here.
Ukrainian Filmmaker Oleh Sentsov Says He Was Wounded While Fighting Russian Troops
Oleh Sentsov in Kramatorsk in July 2022.