Today, August 5, 2026, Ukraine is witnessing the first mass hunger strike in modern history by political prisoners against torture and murder in Vinnytsia Prison No. 86.
The hunger strike is being carried out by Vinnytsia Correctional Colony No. 86: Alexander Melnik, Yagoda, Vilchenko, Lomakin, Samir Bedrashko, Mikhail Sazonov, Dzyuba, Nikolai Pyatachenko, Kotenko, Shapran, Vitaly Kigilchenko, Batarev, Kelyukin, Yarodar Vitlinets. Another 17 people supported the hunger strike.
Pyatikhatka penal colony No. 122, Dnipropetrovsk region: Yuri Petrovsky. 12 people supported the hunger strike.
Nikolaev pre-trial detention center: Igor Savitsky, Anatoly Nikolaev. Another 7 people supported the hunger strike.
Lviv pretrial detention center: Svetlana Novitskaya, Inna Ivanochko Inna. Four people supported the hunger strike.
Lukyanivske pre-trial detention center, Kyiv: Mikhail Vasiliev, Andrey Kuznetsov, Konstantin Kukstel, Ilya Druga, Alexander Burgun, Vasily Yudakov. Another 23 people supported the hunger strike.
Kyiv, political prisoners under house arrest: Mikhail Kononovich, Alexander Kononovich, Georgy Buiko, Anatoly Miruta.
There are 92 political prisoners in total.
Also, 50 communists and anti-fascists and another 20 relatives of political prisoners are conducting a one-day hunger strike in freedom.
Total: 172 people on hunger strike in Ukraine.
Via Anti-Imperialist Front