Australia confirms the potential execution of one of its citizens by Russian forces
A video on Russian Telegram accounts purportedly shows Oscar Jenkins, an Australian captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine.
The Australian government, through its embassy in Moscow, is seeking confirmation of reports that 32-year-old Oscar Jenkins, an Australian citizen, has been captured and possibly killed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
The Russian ambassador to Australia has also been summoned to a meeting with officials.
According to 7News, a source said his body has been found.
If it is true that he has been executed, that would make him the first Australian prisoner of war to be put to death in over 70 years.
A video posted on Russian-linked Telegram accounts shows a man whose hands seem tightly bound with tape and whose face is muddied being questioned by another man who is speaking Russian. It is not clear whether he was speaking under duress.
He identifies himself as Oscar Jenkins and says he lives in Australia and Ukraine.
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His interrogator appears to hit him twice across the head. Jenkins seems to have trouble understanding questions asked in Russian at times, though he replies in a mixture of Russian, Ukrainian, and English
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