Prosecutors from self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic say men face death penalty
“Do you know the information in your indictment,” an interpreter asked Aslin, 28, from Newark, Nottinghamshire. “,” he replied, a military response meaning “affirmative”. Shaun Pinner, 48, from Watford and Bedfordshire, also said he understood the charges against him., meant to mirror war crimes trials being held in Kyiv for atrocities committed by invading Russian soldiers.
Ukraine has sentenced three Russian soldiers to prison for war crimes tied to the Russian offensive that began on 24 February. Vadim Shishimarin, 21, was sentenced to life in prison for killing a 62-year-old civilian in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region early in the war. And two soldiers, Alexander Bobikin and Alexander Ivanov, were each sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for shelling attacks on population centres that “violated the laws and customs of war”.
But the two men were serving in Ukraine’s marines while taking part in the defence of Mariupol’s Azovstal steelworks. Aslin, who had previous volunteered with a Kurdish militia against Islamic State fighters, ran aNonetheless, both men have been paraded before television cameras since they surrendered alongside hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers in May after months spent in a desperate defence of the Ukrainian steelworks.
Andrew Hill, 35, a father of four from Plymouth, was also captured during fighting in southern Ukraine.
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