Russia
Moscow hands extensive jail time to captured fighters
Fifteen members of a Ukrainian militia group have been convicted by a Russian military court of taking part in “a terrorist organisation” and sentenced to between 15 and 21 years in a maximum security penal colony, Russia’s prosecutor general says. The men were members of Ukraine’s Aidar Battalion who were captured in 2022. Their trial took place behind closed doors in a military court in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don.