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Russian authorities confirmed Tuesday that a British antheral had been captured portion warring alongside Ukrainian forces during Kyiv’s violative successful the southwestern Kursk region.
A tribunal successful Kursk announced Monday that it remanded James Scott Rhys Anderson successful custody, accusing him of participating successful “armed hostilities connected the territory of the Kursk region.”
This marks the archetypal authoritative confirmation of Anderson’s detention pursuing the circulation of a video connected pro-Kremlin Telegram channels implicit the weekend.
That video showed a antheral with his hands seemingly tied, identifying himself arsenic James Anderson. The man claimed helium had joined Ukraine’s equipped forces aft being dismissed from the British service successful 2023.
U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Monday that London had been “updated astir that development” and pledged to “offer this UK nationalist each the enactment we can.”
The Leninsky District Court successful Kursk accused Anderson of “a acceptable of peculiarly superior offenses that airs a information to society,” including alleged rank successful Ukraine’s equipped forces, amerciable borderline crossing and information successful hostilities.
The tribunal did not disclose the circumstantial charges against Anderson oregon the magnitude of his detention.
Russia classifies overseas fighters successful Ukraine arsenic “mercenaries,” allowing prosecution nether its transgression codification alternatively of granting them prisoner-of-war protections nether the Geneva Conventions.
In 2022, a Russian-controlled tribunal successful eastbound Ukraine sentenced 2 British fighters to decease for aiding Ukraine, though they were aboriginal freed successful a captive exchange.
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