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The health of Ukrainian citizen Pavel Hryb, who is accused of assisting terrorism in Russia, is deteriorating, Hryb’s father Ihor Hryb has said, referring to the opinion of Ukrainian doctor Vasyl Prytula.

“Professor Pritula gave an opinion on the state of Pavel’s health on the basis of the results of surveys conducted in the consultative and diagnostic center of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. His disease is progressing,” Ihor Hryb said on Facebook.

Pavlo Hryb suffers from an enlarged spleen and an expansion of the vascular network in the gate of the spleen.

As earlier reported, court hearings on Hryb’s case have been postponed until December 21.

On August 28, 2017, Ihor Hryb, a former officer of the Borders Guards Service of Ukraine, said that his 19-year-old son Pavlo had been kidnapped by Russia’s special agents while he was visiting Belarus.

On September 7, it became known that Pavlo Hryb was being held in a pretrial detention center in Krasnodar, Russia.

In Russia, Hryb is accused of committing a crime that is described in Part 1 of Article 205.1 (facilitation of terrorist activities.)

The Hryb’s case was transferred for hearing to the North Caucasian district military court, so he was sent by prisoner transport from Krasnodar to Rostov-on-Don.

On November 7, 2018, the North Caucasian district military court extended Hryb’s arrest for six months until April 24, 2019.