A Russian court on Monday sentenced a 72-year-old American in a closed trial to nearly seven years in prison for allegedly fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.
Prosecutors said Stephen Hubbard signed a contract with the Ukrainian military after Russia sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 and he fought alongside them until being captured two months later.
He was sentenced to six years and 10 months in a general-security prison. Prosecutors had called for a sentence of seven years in a maximum-security prison.
I’m also curious why he isn’t being treated as a POW. This seems like a violation of the Geneva convention, but there’s too little information here.
Russia is a fascist state and doesn’t care about that, or hypocrisy.
That’s your missing information.
*Prisoner of special military operation