Steven Seagal appears on Russian state TV and spouts propaganda

Steven Seagal appears on Russian state TV and spouts propaganda
Steven Seagal has appeared on Russian state media to defend his visit to a prison where Ukrainian POWs were burned alive last month.

The former action star, a Russian citizen since 2016, said he went to see 'evidence' of what happened - before repeating Kremlin propaganda that Kyiv was to blame

Seagal, 70 and who also had a brief career in a soul band, went on to describe himself as a 'diplomat' and said he is producing an 'unbiased' documentary about the Ukraine war despite professing his love and admiration for Vladimir Putin.

Russia says Ukraine ordered a strike on the jail and carried it out using US-supplied HIMARS missiles that have been wreaking havoc behind Putin's frontline.

Kyiv says that is a lie and Moscow burned down the prison, likened by former detainees to a concentration camp, to hide evidence of torture carried out there.

Western observers and experts concur with Ukraine, saying images of the warehouse where the prisoners died shows it largely intact after the fire - something they say would not be the case if it were struck by an explosive HIMARS rocket.

Beds inside the building where Ukrainian prisoners burned to death in their sleep are also undisturbed, and there is no visible blast crater.

HIMARS rocket fragments displayed on Russian state TV as 'evidence' of the strike could easily have been collected elsewhere on the battlefield and brought to the building, they added.

Meanwhile other prisoners at the camp, who are in touch with families outside its walls, also did not report hearing an incoming rocket or explosion.

In order to counter that narrative, Russia sent Seagal to carry out his own inspection - with the 'diplomat' concluding 'one billion percent' that HIMARS was to blame.