The US accuses Russia of using a major power plant as a “nuclear shield,” and three more Britons are set to go on trial in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic for allegedly being “foreign mercenaries” in Ukraine.
Three Britons are being tried by pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine on charges that they were foreign “mercenaries” fighting for the Ukrainian side.
John Harding, Cambridgeshire aid worker Dylan Healy, 22, and military volunteer Andrew Hill are set to be tried in the Moscow-backed Supreme Court of the Donetsk People’s Republic, according to Russian news agency Tass.
After their alleged involvement in combat with the Azov battalion and other military troops captured in Mariupol, all three men are apparently refusing to cooperate with investigators.
They will be tried alongside a man from Croatia and another from Sweden.
A video on Russian television in April featured a man speaking with an English accent who gave his name as Andrew Hill from Plymouth.
Last month, the Donetsk court sentenced British men Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner to death for the same charges. The European Court of Human Rights has been forced to intervene and demanded that Moscow ensure the punishment is not carried out.