‘Hard To Kill’ Star Steven Seagal Visits Russian Prison In Ukraine Days After An Explosion That Killed 50 People

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The visit to the Russian-controlled jail in Olenivka, Ukraine came just days after an explosion killed at least 50 people there on July 29. The jail housed hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners at the time of the blast.

As if it’s not jarring enough, Steven Seagal, who is a vocal supporter of Russian president Vladimir Putin, was banned from entering Ukraine for five years in 2017 after Putin gave him citizenship and personally handed him his Russian passport in 2016, after he vocally supported Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

He has also praised Putin for being “one of the greatest world leaders, if not the greatest world leader, alive today.”

Steven Seagal’s support to Russia created controversy among Americans, who saw it as treachery to the United States.

The ‘Hard to Kill’ star relocated to Moscow after he was granted Russian citizenship while still retaining his American citizenship. In May 2018, he was appointed Russia’s special envoy to the US.

Steven Seagal officially joined a Russian pro-Kremlin party in May 2021.

When Russia was planning an attack on Ukraine, the father of seven reportedly finalised the sale of his nearly 20-year-owned Northern California ranch. In February, he told Fox News of the war, “Most of us have friends and family in Russia and Ukraine.”

He added: “I look at both as one family and really believe it is an outside entity spending huge sums of money on propaganda to provoke the two countries to be at odds with each other.”

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