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Some captured Azov fighters will face trial, Putin ally says

Journalists gather in front of a screen in a room of Russia's Supreme Court before a hearing on whether to designate Ukraine's Azov Regiment as a terrorist entity in Moscow, Russia June 29, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Some captured members of Ukraine's Azov Regiment will face trial, the speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said on Thursday, a day after Russia's top court postponed a decision on whether to brand the unit as a terrorist entity.

Vyacheslav Volodin, an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Russia would carry out a "substantial investigation" into every member of Azov to find out "who was involved in what."

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