Canberra Slams Russian Jailing Of Australian Who Fought For Ukraine

Fuente: International Business Times

Ukrainian servicemen get ready to repel a Russian attack in Lugansk region AFP Australia's government said Saturday it was "appalled" by a Russian-controlled court's 13-year penal colony sentence for an Australian man who was captured while fighting for Ukraine. Oscar Jenkins, a 33-year-old from Melbourne, was convicted of being a "mercenary in an armed conflict" by the court in Ukraine's Russian-occupied east Lugansk region, prosecutors said. The former biology teacher was ordered to serve his time in a "strict regime penal colony".