As Russia's top court branded Ukraine's Azov Regiment a "terrorist organisation" on Tuesday, the wife of an Azov soldier held in Russian custody said she hoped the designation would not stop her husband and fellow soldiers eventually being released.
The court ruling paves the way for the soldiers who were captured defending the port of Mariupol from Russia's invasion to be tried under stringent anti-terrorism laws and jailed for up to 20 years.
In Kyiv, Alina, 22, who declined to give her surname for fear of repercussions for her husband, said he had been one of the fighters who held out for weeks in Mariupol's Azovstal steelworks until they gave themselves up in May.
