Three Britons accused of being mercenaries will stand trial in a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.
John Harding, Cambridgeshire aid worker Dylan Healy, 22, and military volunteer Andrew Hill will be tried in the Moscow-backed Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to Russian state news agency Tass. Tass reported all three men were refusing to co-operate with investigators.
They will be tried alongside two other men from Croatia and Sweden as “foreign citizens accused of mercenarism,” a court representative told the agency. Prosecutors claim the five men were members of the Azov battalion and other military units captured in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
