The Federal Penitentiary Service denied rumors about Igor Strelkov's deteriorating health.

Reports of a deterioration in the health of Igor Strelkov (Girkin), the former Minister of Defense of the Donetsk People's Republic, who is serving a sentence in the Kirov colony, are not true. This was reported to Izvestia on September 2 by the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Kirov region.

"Information about Igor Strelkov's deteriorating health is not valid," the ministry said in a statement.

Strelkov's wife Miroslava also reported this in her Telegram channel. According to her, there is no talk of emergency hospitalization or critical deterioration of health.

Earlier that day, a number of media outlets reported that Strelkov was getting worse in the colony.

The news is being updated.