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The British Foreign Office says it is “deeply concerned” about the welfare of four Ukrainians being held by Russia who are conducting hunger strikes to protest Moscow’s detention of Ukrainian political prisoners.

“Their imprisonment, and that of many more Ukrainians who have been jailed by Russia, appears politically motivated,” the Foreign Office said in a statement on June 6.

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