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Australian man captured while fighting for Ukraine jailed for 13 years

Australian man captured while fighting for Ukraine jailed for 13 years

Oscar Jenkins has been convicted of being a ‘mercenary in an armed conflict’ by a Russia-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.

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