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British prosecutors have charged a man with terrorism offenses related to the war between Russia-backed separatists and Kyiv’s forces in eastern Ukraine.

Benjamin Stimson, 41, faces what are believed to be Britain’s first terrorism charges involving offenses allegedly committed in the conflict, which erupted shortly after Russia forcibly annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014.

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