Ukraine seeks to save foreign soldiers who have been sentenced to death says lawmaker

• Ukraine is doing everything possible to spare three foreign people sentenced to death in Donbas by proxy authorities for fighting for Ukraine, according to a member of Ukraine’s parliamentary security and defence committee.
• Two Britons and a Moroccan were convicted of “mercenary operations” by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), whose separatist leaders are backed by Moscow, on Thursday after being apprehended.
• “Both the Defence Ministry and the Main Directorate of Intelligence, which deals with the exchange of prisoners, are taking all necessary measures to ensure these citizens of foreign states … are saved,” lawmaker Fedir Venislavskyi said on national television.

Ukraine is doing everything possible to spare three foreign people sentenced to death in Donbas by proxy authorities for fighting for Ukraine, according to a member of Ukraine’s parliamentary security and defense committee.

Two Britons and a Moroccan were convicted of “mercenary operations” by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), whose separatist leaders are backed by Moscow, on Thursday after being apprehended.

“Both the Defence Ministry and the Main Directorate of Intelligence, which deals with the exchange of prisoners, are taking all necessary measures to ensure these citizens of foreign states … are saved,” lawmaker Fedir Venislavskyi said on national television.

“Both the Defence Ministry and the Main Directorate of Intelligence, which deals with the exchange of prisoners, are taking all necessary measures to ensure these citizens of foreign states … are saved,” lawmaker Fedir Venislavskyi said on national television.

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Iryna Vereshchuk, the Deputy Prime Minister, expressed confidence that the separatist leadership would act rationally in the end, “since they are well aware of the irreversible consequences for them and the Russians if they take any wrong moves against these three of our men.”

“Something tells me that these three troops will be exchanged (or else return home) ultimately, one way or another, sooner or later,” she said in an online post on Saturday.

The British government has described the fighters’ sentencing as a “egregious infringement” of the Geneva Convention, which states that prisoners of war are entitled to combatant immunity and should not be tried for taking part in hostilities.

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