Russia sentences British man to 13 years for fighting in Ukraine
The jailed Briton was named as 30-year-old Hayden Davies by Russia's Prosecutor General, who said he had been tried by a court in a part of Russian-controlled Donetsk.
The defendant named by the office of Russia's Prosecutor General as Hayden Davies, a 30-year-old British citizen convicted of being a paid mercenary fighting for Ukraine against the Russian army amid the military conflict, attends a court hearing in Donetsk in this image released December 18, 2025.(photo credit: Russian Prosecutor General's Office/Handout via REUTERS )ByREUTERS