A British man has been jailed for 19 years after a Russian courtroom discovered him responsible of preventing for Ukraine within the nation’s Kursk area.
James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, had been charged with terrorist and mercenary offences and was convicted following a closed trial.
The courtroom mentioned he ought to serve the primary 5 years of his sentence in jail and the remaining in a penal colony.
Within the trial, a Ukrainian soldier from the identical unit was questioned as a witness.
Ukrainian troops broke throughout the border into Kursk area on 6 August final 12 months.
They nonetheless maintain some territory there seven months later, regardless of makes an attempt by Russian forces to pressure them out.
Investigators accused Anderson of illegally crossing into Kursk in November as a part of an armed group that dedicated unspecified “criminal acts against civilians”.
Russian state media revealed video displaying him being led in handcuffs and locked in a cage of the sort the place defendants in Russian courtroom circumstances are positioned.
It apparently confirmed Anderson saying he had served within the British military from 2019-2023 earlier than deciding to hitch the overseas legion of Ukraine’s armed forces.
Early on within the warfare, Ukraine’s authorities mentioned greater than 20,000 folks from 52 international locations got here to Ukraine’s assist.
Since then, the variety of overseas fighters in Ukraine’s army has been categorised.
