Oscar Jenkins has been convicted of being a ‘mercenary in an armed conflict’ by a Russian-controlled court
An Australian man captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine has been jailed for 13 years on the charge of being a “mercenary”.
Oscar Jenkins, a 33-year-old man from Melbourne, was convicted of being a “mercenary in an armed conflict” and sentenced on Friday to 13 years “in a strict regime penal colony” by a Russian-controlled court in Ukraine’s east Luhansk region.
