Albanese to meet Zelenskyy amid efforts to free Oscar Jenkins from Russia | ABC NEWS
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy amid efforts to free Australian man Oscar Jenkins from a Russian prison. The Australian government condemned the 13-year prison sentence for Mr Jenkins as an ‘outrage’, with Foreign Minister Penny Wong describing the Russian court proceedings as a ‘sham trial’. A Russian judge found the former Melbourne school teacher guilty of being a mercenary for Ukraine in its war against Russia.
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