A court in the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk, a breakaway area in eastern Ukraine supported by Russia but not recognized by the international community, sentenced to death on Thursday two Britons and a Moroccan who fought for Ukraine during the conflict started by the Russian invasion. on February 24th.
According to the Interfax news agency, the three detainees – Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun – were found guilty of “mercenary activities and committing actions aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the Donetsk People’s Republic”. .
UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wrote on Twitter that Aslin and Pinner are “prisoners of war” and that their trial was a “front case without any legitimacy”. The Moroccan government has yet to comment on the conviction of Brahim Saadoun.
Pro-Russian separatists proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk in 2014 after the removal of a pro-Moscow government in Ukraine, which sparked a civil war.
The conflict was amplified from February this year, when Russia, three days after President Vladimir Putin recognized the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, invaded the neighboring country on the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians and “denazifying” Ukraine.
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