Five Europeans face trial on mercenary charges in separatist-controlled Ukraine

Three Britons and two EU citizens appear in Donetsk court accused of undergoing training to seize power by force'

Five Europeans captured in eastern Ukraine have gone on trial in a court administered by Kremlin-backed separatists in the city of Donetsk, Russian media reported.

The five - Mathias Gustafsson of Sweden, Vjekoslav Prebeg of Croatia, and Britons John Harding, Andrew Hill and Dylan Healy - all pleaded not guilty to charges of being mercenaries and undergoing training to seize power by force", according to Russian media reports.