Three foreigners sentenced to death by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have appealed the controversial trials, authorities said. Should the court of the internationally unrecognized “Donetsk People’s Republic” find the sentence lawful, it must be carried out, separatist leader Denis Puschilin said on Russian state television on Wednesday. The men would then be shot into the camera.
Separatist leader Puschilin also spoke of preparations for trials of more than 100 Ukrainian fighters who had defended Mariupol, which had since been captured by Russia, until the end of May. The men of the Azov regiment are already in custody. According to the media, other foreigners are also being held by the separatists.
Britons already lived in Ukraine before the war broke out
The two British and Moroccans were captured by pro-Russian fighters in the southeastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol in mid-April and sentenced to death as foreign mercenaries in early June – they would not be considered combatants and international laws protecting POWs would not apply to them. application, according to the Russian leadership. According to the media, the two Britons had lived and married in Ukraine before the war. Britain, Ukraine and the United Nations strongly criticized the death sentence and spoke of prisoners of war entitled to protection.
The separatists in the Donetsk region recently lifted a moratorium on the death penalty.
Source: Krone
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