Cabinet to allocate Hr 100,000 to families of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia

Published July 26, 2018 at 12:40 pm

People carry a giant banner with an appeal to free Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov during a rally in Kiev on July 1, 2018, to demand the release Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence in Russia, who have spent more than a month on hunger strike in jail to demand Moscow release Ukrainian political prisoners.

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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine will make a decision on July 26 to allocate Hr 100,000 to the families of Ukrainians held in Russia for political reasons, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said.

“We will take a decision today to support the families of political prisoners and allocate Hr 100,000 to each family,” he said at a government meeting on July 26.

He said that these families have a lot of expenses that they need to cover.

Groysman also thanked Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova for the all-round support of Ukrainian political prisoners held in Russia.