London rejects the “false trial without guarantees” while Zelensky compares the coronavirus pandemic with the invasion of Moscow
The pro-Russian Justice of the self-proclaimed republic of Donetsk sentenced three foreign fighters – two British and one Moroccan – to death on Thursday for fighting in the war in favor of Ukraine. The trial began on Monday for Sean Piner, Aiden Aslin and Sadun Brahim, captured by Kremlin troops, and all three acknowledged on Wednesday part of the crimes attributed to them, including the forced seizure of power and acting as “mercenaries” in the armed conflict. After analyzing “all the evidence”, the Supreme Court proved the guilt of the accused and determined that they should be “sentenced to death”, according to the Russian agency TASS.
London rejected the conviction. The British Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liz Truss, denounced that the verdict has been given in the framework of a “false trial, with absolutely no guarantees”. Boris Johnson’s government recalled that prisoners of war should not be prosecuted for participating in hostilities. “We will continue to work with the Ukrainian authorities to try to secure the release of any British nationals who have been serving in the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” they said from Downing Street.
Nearly 7,000 foreign volunteers from more than sixty countries joined the ranks in kyiv. Of them, Moscow maintains, just over a thousand were arrested, while about 400 were trapped in the Azovstal steel plant during the siege of Mariupol.
This verdict is just one more example of the Russian “pandemic”, as Ukrainian President Volodímir Zelensky highlighted on Thursday. “Weapons and sanctions are a vaccine against the disease that Moscow has brought. The virus is called hate and it is deadlier than Covid-19 », he pointed out before referring to the war as « Covid-22 ». This pathogen, he continued, spreads through “Russian propaganda, the impunity of murderers, the permanence of Russian oil on the global market, and the movement of its blood-stained money within universal financial systems.”
“When hate knocks on your door, will you be ready? Can a mask protect you from the Russian Covid-22? Why is it so difficult to achieve sufficient guarantees? ”, Said the president in his Telegram account, while recalling the more than 2,600 missiles that Vladimir Putin has launched on Ukrainian territory, most against civilian targets. The kyiv Army is now fighting one of the “most difficult” battles in Severodonetsk, which is why it once again asked the West for heavy weapons to retake control of the city in “two or three” days.
“Blackmail the world”
During the invasion, 283 children have died and “while we try to protect freedom, another person continues to blackmail the world with starvation,” Zelensky warned about the problem of grain exports. The delicate situation could lead to a “global food crisis”, which could lead to “a shortage of products in dozens of countries and millions of people could starve if Russia continues to block traffic in the Black Sea”, he declared.
The attitude of the Kremlin gives war in other areas. The latest controversy arose as a result of the proposal presented by Yevgeni Fiodorov, president of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Russian Duma, in which he urged the cancellation of a resolution of the Council of States of the Soviet Union dating from 1991 in which it was recognized Lithuanian independence. Fyodorov argued that the ruling was “illegal” because a referendum was not held.
The proposal caused outrage in Lithuania. “Only a state ruled by beasts could start a war similar to the one started by Russia. I am not surprised that in politics they do not behave according to human standards and we must respond accordingly,” roared the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis, who warned that his country is prepared to “defend ourselves and our partners by political means. , diplomatic or otherwise.
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