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London — Two British people have been charged with "merchant activity" by investigators on a Russian-backed separatist territory in eastern Ukraine, Russia's national news agency TASS reports Friday. rice field.
TASS cites sources of power structure in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), recognized only by Russia and Syria, in a criminal procedure and prosecuted against Dylan Healy and Andrew Hill Said it was done. Article 430 of the DPR Penal Code.
It said that both men refused to cooperate.
Westerners are traveling to Ukraine to protect Ukraine from the Russian invasion or to provide humanitarian aid to millions of Ukrainians whose lives are disrupted.
On April 29, the Russian Defense Ministry released a video showing an injured British man captured in Ukraine. His name is Andrew Hill, he spoke in a British accent and was cross-examined by unidentified Russian troops.
The ministry said it had surrendered and carried weapons to Russian troops at least 80 km (50 miles) west of the DPR in the Mikolive region of southwestern Ukraine.
The one-of-them man in a camouflage uniform told the questioner that he was from Plymouth, southern England, and had four children and one partner.
Also, on April 29, the BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61268817は、非営利の救援グループPresidium Network in the United Kingdom stated that Dylan Healy was a humanitarian volunteer and was detained at a checkpoint in southern Ukraine. I did. He is with another volunteer, Paul Urey.
Two British and one Moroccan " He was sentenced to death for "Mercenary Activities".
Their relatives say they were not mercenaries, but legitimate soldiers eligible for the protection of the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war because they were contracted to fight for the Ukrainian army. increase.
TASS reports on Friday that the DPR Supreme Court has been appealed by Brahim Saadoun and Shaun Pinner lawyers, but other Britons, Aiden Aslin, have not yet filed an appeal. did.
TASS quoted the court as stating that the appeal would be considered within two months.
Pinner said he sought his sentence to commutate to life imprisonment.
It's unclear what this means for the three men. Unlike Russia, the DPR has been sentenced to death by its decree since 2014, but until now there was no law outlining how to enforce it.
The UK refused to publicly trade with Russian agents in unrecognized DPR and preferred to seek help from Kieu. Russia states that the fate of men is a matter of DPR.
Two Americans – Alexander Drueke from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Andy Huynh from Hartselle, Alabama – said they were captured by separatist forces while fighting for Ukraine, Russian state media Shown in the video aired by.
(Reported by Reuters, edited by Leslie Adler)