MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Monday sentenced 72-year-old American citizen Stephen James Hubbard to six years and 10 months in prison after convicting him of serving as a mercenary for Ukraine, a Reuters reporter in the courtroom said.
Investigators said Hubbard, a native of Michigan, was paid $1,000 per month to serve in a Ukrainian territorial defence unit in the eastern city of Izyum, where he had been living since 2014.
Russian state media said Hubbard had pleaded guilty to the charge.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by Lucy Papachristou; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
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