PM confirms DFAT making enquiries after video circulates showing man who identifies himself as Oscar Jenkins being questioned
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A video purporting to show the Russian capture of an Australian man fighting for Ukraine on the war’s eastern front has prompted urgent inquiries from Australia’s federal government.
The man, who identified himself as Oscar Jenkins, is struck several times and questioned roughly in Russian in the video, which circulating on messaging service Telegram. Nine newspapers, which broke news of the video, reported that the footage had been first shared by the Russian journalist Alexander Sladkov.
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