Steven Seagal visits captured Azov fighters in DPR

US actor Steven Seagal visited captured Azov* fighters in the Donetsk People's Republic.

The video shows the actor communicating with prisoners in the colony in the settlement of Elenovka near Donetsk.

One can see that the militants recognized Seagal and shared impressions of their life in the colony.

One of the Azov* members said:

"They treat us well, quite well. There is nothing to complain about. I think the conditions are acceptable."

The footage will be used in Seagal's documentary about the events in Donbass. Announcing the project, the actor said that the world does not know the truth.

"Ninety-eight percent of those who talk about the conflict in the media have never been here. Therefore, the world does not know the truth. I want to change the view of this war. This is not an easy task," Denis Pushilin, the head of the DPR said about the film.

*Azov is a terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation.

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Steven Frederic Seagal (born April 10, 1952) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter, martial artist, and musician. A 7th-dan black belt in aikido, he began his adult life as a martial arts instructor in Japan where he became the first American to teach in an aikido dojo. He later moved to Los Angeles where he continued teaching aikido. In 1988, Seagal made his acting debut in Above the Law, which is regarded as the first American film to feature aikido in fight sequences. In 1992, he played Navy SEAL counter-terrorist expert Casey Ryback in Under Siege, a role he reprised in the sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995). In 1994, he starred in his directorial debut film On Deadly Ground. During the latter half of the 1990s, Seagal starred in three more feature films and the direct-to-video film The Patriot. Subsequently, his career shifted to mostly direct-to-video productions. He has since appeared in films and reality shows, most notably as the main villain in Robert Rodriguez's Machete (2010), and Steven Seagal: Lawman, which depicted Seagal performing duties as a reserve deputy sheriff.