Mercenary Oscar Jenkins Might Just Avoid the Gulag After All

Russia's Duma backs Aussie Cossack prisoner swap for captured Melbourne man Oscar Jenkins.

The Russian military has just detained Australian mercenary 32-year-old Oscar Jenkins in the SMO zone.

Within hours of the Australian man's caputre today near Kramatorsk the First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Relations with Compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky declared:
"Russia will make every effort to resolve this exchange issue and all Russian Cossacks will, of course, support us," Vodolatsky said.

"The time has come when we can exchange the Russian patriot, Ataman Boikov, for this scum who was captured and came to our Orthodox Russian land to hunt civilians.

The State Duma deputy recalled that the persecution of Boikov in Australia is purely political in nature.

"The Australian authorities are persecuting Simeon for his civic position, for not allowing history to be distorted, for telling the truth about the SMO, for speaking out against the ideology of Nazism. But over these years he has not given up, he has endured all the hardships and remains a true patriot of Great Russia, like a true Cossack", - added Vodolatsky.