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 allege all five men were members of the Azov battalion and other military units captured in Mariupol. Tass also said 60-year-old Mr Harding had fought in Syria on the Kurdish side, but had denied killing anyone.
