Ukraine is prosecuting its own citizens who have been forcibly mobilised to fight for Russia – despite initial promises of an amnesty from the country’s top officials.
Since February this year, thousands of men in the Russian-occupied parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine have been seized from the streets, public transport or their places of work and sent to fight on the frontlines against Ukrainian forces.
Ukraine considers forced mobilisation in territories occupied by Russia a war crime.
