Two British men were charged with “mercenary activity” by investigators on a Russian-backed separatist territory in Ukraine.
Russia’s state news agency TASS cites sources of power structure in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in a criminal case and prosecutes Dylan Healy (22) and Andrew Hill (35) Said it was done.
It said both men refused to cooperate with courts in territories only permitted by the Russian and Syrian governments.
On April 29, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video showing an injured British man captured in Ukraine. His name is Andrew Hill, who is being cross-examined by an unidentified Russian army.
They said he had surrendered to Russian troops in southwestern Ukraine and had weapons.
Healy is reported to be a humanitarian volunteer who appears to have been detained at a checkpoint in southern Ukraine.
Last month, two British and one Moroccan were sentenced to death for “mercenary activity” after being captured in a battle between Russia and Russian support forces for Ukraine.
Two British citizens, Aiden Aslin on the left, Sean Pinner on the right, and Moroccan Saudun Brahim in the center, sit behind a bar in a Donetsk courtroom.
/ / APTheir relatives say they were not mercenaries, but regular soldiers eligible for the protection of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, as they were contracted to fight for the Ukrainian army.
TASS reported on Friday that the DPR Supreme Court had been appealed by Brahim Saadoun and Shaun Pinner’s lawyers, but another Briton, Aiden Aslin, had not yet filed an appeal.
TASS quoted the court as stating that the appeal would be considered within two months.
It said Pinner had sought his sentence to commutate to life imprisonment.
The UK refused to publicly trade with Russian agents in an unrecognized DPR and preferred to seek help from Kieu. Russia states that the fate of men is a matter of DPR.