Volodymyr Dudka is spending his 56th birthday on Sept. 30 in a Russian prison. This is the fourth birthday that the former Ukrainian naval captain, arrested in Russian-occupied Crimea, has spent in Russian captivity, and with the politically motivated and fabricated ‘trial’ that ended in 14-year sentences against Dudka and Ukrainian academic Oleksiy Bessarabov long over, there is little new to tell. Silence in the absence of ‘breaking news’ is, however, a gift to Moscow and a message that such cynical destruction of men’s lives for anti-Ukrainian political trials can continue unhampered.
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The photo shows Ukrainian political prisoner Volodymyr Dudka.
