On a trip this week to the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, Hollywood star Steven Seagal promoted Kremlin propaganda by asserting that the explosion last month that killed more than 50 Ukrainian prisoners of war was brought on by US-supplied HIMARS rockets.
In a video, the “Under Siege” singer, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2016 and backed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Crimea, is shown touring Olenivka Prison, the scene of the strike on July 29 that left 53 prisoners of war dead and at least 75 others injured.
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In a video that was uploaded to the pro-Kremlin Russian news website TVZVEZDA on Tuesday, Seagal said, “This is where HIMARS hit, 50 people were killed, another 70 were injured.”
It most certainly resembles a rocket.
Of course, it’s not a bomb if you take a closer look at the burning and other features.
Not to note that Russia actually owns a lot of HIMARS artefacts.
The “Above the Law” celebrity was introduced in the film as the Special Representative of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Humanitarian Relations between Russia.
In a video recorded inside the destroyed prison, Steven Seagal, 70, made an appearance and said that HIMARS missiles were used to destroy it in order to silence a Ukrainian “Nazi.”
Without providing any evidence, Seagal asserted that the prison attack had been ordered by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s made a show of examining purported evidence at the scene of the attack.
Speaking in English, Seagal referred to the dead POWs as “Nazis” and implied—without providing any proof—that the site had been destroyed on Volodymyr Zelensky’s orders in order to silence one of the detainees.
According to Seagal in the video, “the interesting thing is that one of the killed Nazis is a Nazi who just started talking a lot about Zelensky,” and that Zelensky is accountable for the orders concerning torture and other atrocities that violate both the Geneva War Convention and crimes against humanity.
The brief video also showed Seagal holding up what appeared to be proof while posing next to prison bars and fighting Ukrainian prisoners.
Russia claims that the Ukrainian military shelled the prison with American-made HIMARS, which Kyiv firmly denies, accusing Moscow of launching the attack to hide the murder and torture of prisoners.
Vladimir Solovyev, the “Putin’s voice” of Russian official television, said that Seagal had “personally reviewed the evidence, including fragment of American rockets, that reveal Kyiv’s participation to the mass massacre of their own soldiers” on his Telegram channel.
In a video from his visit, the “Under Siege” action star Seagal can be seen conversing with alleged Ukrainian inmates.
In a video from his visit, the “Under Siege” action star Seagal can be seen conversing with alleged Ukrainian inmates.
In addition to meeting with Ukrainian POWs, according to Solovyev, the movie star defended the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol for two months before surrendering.
The Donetsk People’s Republic’s leader, Denis Pushilin, said on his Telegram channel that Seagal was producing a documentary “to change the perception on this war.”
“Steven highlighted that 98% of individuals who comment about the dispute in the media have never been here. Because of this, no one knows the truth, according to Pushilin.
Just a few days prior to Seagal’s trip to the Donbas and his unsupported claims regarding the alleged use of HIMARS in the attack on the prison, US intelligence officials issued a warning that Russia was attempting to smuggle fake evidence to support the narrative that Ukrainians were responsible for the bloodshed at Olenivka.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters last week: “We anticipate that Russian officials would try to frame the Ukrainian Armed Forces in anticipation of media and prospective investigators visiting the site of the attack.”
Kirby stated that in order to prove that the US-supplied systems were involved in the explosion, the Russians might even plant ammunition from actual HIMARS rockets.
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Vladimir Putin’s takeover of the Crimea was supported by Seagal, who was given Russian citizenship in 2016.
He was seen in 2015 shaking hands with the strongman.
Separately, a representative of a Western government claimed that after studying pictures of the prison taken after the incident, explosive experts had concluded that it was much more likely that an internal fire than a high-explosive strike had been the source of the destruction.
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According to information provided by the Ukrainian defence ministry’s intelligence division, local separatists supported by the Kremlin collaborated with the Russian FSB and the mercenary group Wagner to mine the barracks before “using a flammable substance, which caused the fire in the room to spread rapidly.”
The attack location has not yet been made accessible to the International Red Cross, which is in charge of the POWs’ welfare at the Olenivka prison.
