UK says Russia attempting to ‘overwhelm’ Sievierodonetsk with artillery; Shaun Pinner’s family call for his safe release or exchange
A captured South Korean national who fought alongside Ukraine’s army will be put on trial in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic , Interfax news agency has reported, citing the separatist official Natalia Nikonorova.
“A verdict is being prepared now on a mercenary from South Korea. He is their citizen who fought for the armed forces of Ukraine,” Interfax quoted her as saying on Saturday, according to Reuters.and a Moroccan national captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death by a court in the DPR on Thursday. The UK government has said the men are entitled to combatant immunity as prisoners of war. The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, called it a “sham judgment”.It’s past 3pm in Ukraine.
Shaun Pinner, 48, from Watford, is one of three men captured while fighting with the Ukrainian army in Mariupol and sentenced to death by pro-Russia officials. Russian authorities in the occupied areas of Melitopol and Kherson have begun handing out Russian passports,that simplified the application process for a Russian passport for residents of the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.the governor of the Luhansk region said after a Russia-backed separatist claimed that between 300 and 400 Ukrainian fighters were trapped there.
, including children, are hiding beneath a chemical factory in the key eastern Ukrainian city, now 80% held by Russian troops.the Ukrainian lawmaker Fedir Venislavskyi said., told a summit in Singapore that the world faced an “acute and severe food crisis and famineUrsula von der Leyen is to meet ZelenskiyThe president of the European Commission said they would discuss Ukraine’s reconstruction and progress towards EU membership.according to the country’s defence ministry.
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