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Two British men captured by Russian troops in separatist-occupied Ukraine have been accused of being mercenaries, Russian media said.
Rescuer Dylan Healy, 22, was detained at a checkpoint earlier this year while helping a woman and children flee a fighting zone in Russian-backed territory, according to an aid agency.
Andrew Hill, a military volunteer detained in the Mykolaiv region around the same time, was seen on Russian state TV in camouflage clothing.
A source in the power structures of the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic said investigators had filed charges of carrying out “mercenary activities” against both men, a spokesman said. Bag.
It claimed that both men refused to cooperate with the investigation.
In a video shown on Russian television in April, an English-accented man appeared to give his name as Andrew Hill of Plymouth.
His arm was in a sling, his head was bandaged and there was blood on his hand.
The Russian Defense Ministry said he had surrendered to Russian troops and was carrying a weapon.
British aid worker Paul Urey
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Mr Healy, from Cambridgeshire, and another volunteer, Paul Urey, 45, from Manchester, were both captured in April during an operation south of Zaporizhzhya.
A pro-Kremlin website said Healy and Hill would face the same mercenary charges as Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, two British military volunteers captured in Mariupol and sentenced to death by a court in Donetsk.
Mr Pinner, 48, from Watford, has appealed his sentence. bag said.
He is said to have moved to Ukraine with his wife several years ago and later joined the country’s armed forces.
Ukrainian officials have previously said they will try to involve Mr Aslin and Mr Pinner in a prisoner swap.
British citizens Aiden Aslin, left, and Shaun Pinner, right, and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim attend a sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Donetsk
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An updated criminal law for the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which took effect Friday, says the death penalty will be applied from 2025.
It is unclear what this means for the imprisoned men. The DPR has had the death penalty in its statute since 2014, but until now had no legislation outlining how it should be enforced.
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