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The Australian man, who was captured by Russian troops during the fight with Ukraine, was sentenced to 13 years in prison, Russian prosecutors said.
The 33-year-old Oscar Jenkins was convicted in a Russian court in the occupied eastern Ukraine on Friday for fighting in an armed conflict as a mercenary.
Mr. Jenkins, a teacher from Melbourne, was captured in December last year in the Lugansk region.
Prosecutors said he arrived in Ukraine in February 2024, which claimed that he was paid from 600,000 to 800,000 rubles (5.504 pounds of sterling and 7 339 pounds) per month to participate in hostilities against Russian troops.
Last December, a video showed Mr. Jenkins with his hands tied, and he was hit on his face and questioned by Russian troops. They ask him if they pay him for the fight in Ukraine.
In January, Australia summoned a Russian ambassador about false reports that Mr. Jenkins was killed after his capture.
Since then, the Australian government has repeatedly called for release.
“We will still make ideas to the opposite regime (Russian President) Vladimir Putin on behalf of Mr. Jenkins,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albonez 9news in April.
In March, British man James Scott Rice Anderson was imprisoned for 19 years by a Russian military court after charges of terrorism and mercenary activity, becoming the first British national, convicted Russia during the war.
The 22-year-old guy was captured last November in the Russian region of Kursk-where Ukrainian forces began an unexpected invasion before retreating in recent months.
Before launching a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized all Lugansk and Donetsk as independent of Ukraine. Russian proxy -silt started the uprising there in 2014.
