Jun 21 2022 20:30
Russia’s ambassador to Britain said on Tuesday that London had requested Moscow’s help regarding two British men who were sentenced to death in the Donetsk region for fighting alongside Ukraine.
A court this month sentenced Britons Aiden Aslin and Sean Boehner and Moroccan Ibrahim Saadoun to death for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, according to sources in Donetsk.
The families of the three men, who were contracted by the Ukrainian armed forces, deny that they are mercenaries. London says the two British men were regular soldiers and should, under the Geneva Conventions, be exempted from prosecution for taking part in combat operations.
“There was an approach that the British took with us, which was to send us a message, but this message was so full of guiding expressions that it did not arouse our desire to cooperate on this issue,” Ambassador Andrei Kelin told Rossiya 24 television.
The British Foreign Office did not respond to a request for comment.
Source: Reuters
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