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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is to be transferred to a hospital, Euronews cited the Russian penitentiary service (FSIN) as saying on Monday.

They added that his health condition is “satisfactory” and said that Navalny, on his third week of hunger strike, has accepted to take vitamin supplements.

According to Euronews, his supporters have dismissed his transfer to a hospital for convicts in another penal colony as a ploy intended to lower turnout at pro-Navalny protests scheduled for Wednesday.

It comes a day after senior figures in France, Germany and the US have warned that Russia could face additional sanctions if Navalny’s health deteriorated any further.

Navalny’s personal physicians sounded the alarm on Saturday over the opposition leader’s physical state of health. The jailed opposition leader, they said, had lost 50kg in less than three weeks after going on hunger strike and is in danger of going into cardiac arrest, Euronews said.