Director interrupts hunger strike after 144 days shows what he had eaten during this time

Ukrainian director Oleg Stentsov, who refused food for more than 140 days in a Russian prison, stopped his protest Friday after President Vladimir Putin rejected the request for his release.

Russia's most famous prisoner had spent 144 days without solid food, but called for his hunger strike after a long month, the star's campaign to ensure his release, which failed to push Moscow into action.

“convicted Oleg Stentsov has agreed in writing to consume food,” said the Russian prison service in a statement.

Moscow's best Nutritionists have developed a special diet to help 42-year-old youth eat solid foods and relieve its “fasting without complications”, he said.

There was no immediate comment from St.sov's lawyer, Dmitry Dinze.

The prison's deputy chief, Valeri Maksimenko, said Stentsov was currently in a prison hospital but would be transferred back to his barracks once he got better.

“He's taking normal food,” he told the Russian television channel Dozhd, adding that the prisoner had so far eaten “passes from the pipes like a cosmonaut”.

Maksimenko told Russian reporters that he was grateful to local doctors and lawyers who made sure Stentsov that “ai has to live, that life continues”.

“He is new, maybe he will become the famous director”, Maksimenko told Dozhdi. “Let him live,” he said, adding that the activist had called his hunger strike Friday.

The director is best known for his film “Gamer”, which appears in critical cheering at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2012.

Stentsov is serving a 20-year sentence in a Russian Arctic prison after being convicted of terrorist charges on an alleged crime-fire plot, Reuters reported.