Azovstal fighters to face trial, separatist leader says

The Ukrainian fighters who surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol are to be put on trial, the head of the separatist Donetsk region (DNR) told Russian state media.

"The captives from Azovstal are kept in DNR territory. There are plans to organise an international tribunal in the republic's territory, too," the leader of the breakaway region Denis Pushilin is quoted as saying.

"The tribunal's statute is being worked out now," he said.

It was not clear from the report what charges the soldiers would face.