The trial is underway in the Luhansk oblast of 22-year-old Viktor Ageyev, a Russian whose repeated acknowledgement that he was a contract soldier in the Russian army was reiterated by his mother, and apparently corroborated by other evidence. The fact that Ageyev has radically changed his position, and is now represented by a lawyer who refuses to disclose who is paying him, is in itself nothing new. What is more disturbing is that the prosecution is now going along with this new story.
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Viktor Ageyev, a Russian detained in the war-torn Ukrainian east, speaks to journalists as he is presented to the media during a meeting organised by the Ukrainian security forces, in a temporary prison in Starobilsk, some 80 kms (about 50 miles) north of the rebel stronghold of Luhansk, on July 22.
