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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Briton captured while fighting for Ukraine jailed for 19 years in Russia

James Scott Rhys Anderson
James Scott Rhys Anderson has been ordered to serve 15 years of his sentence in a high-security penal colony. Photograph: Telegram

A British citizen captured while fighting alongside the Ukrainian army has been sentenced in Russia to 19 years in prison on charges of terrorism and “mercenary activities”.

James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, was captured by Russian forces last November while fighting on Ukraine’s side during its cross-border offensive in Russia’s Kursk region.

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