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Donetsk. File photoDONETSK, June 1 Foreign mercenaries who took part in the hostilities in the Donbass on the side of the Ukrainian troops are not subject to exchange, said Elena Shishkina, chairman of the committee on criminal and administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR. «We hope that adherence to the legal field, international conventions will prevail and every country, Europe and the United States including, will send representatives to the international tribunal,» the official channel of the republican administration in Telegram quoted her as saying. The deputy noted that this also applies to the British Sean Pinner and Andrew Hill, as well as the Moroccan Saaudun Brahim. As the Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR announced earlier following the investigation of a criminal case, the mentioned fighters could face the death penalty. Pinner and another British citizen Aiden Aslin surrendered in Mariupol in mid-April. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that Moscow does not consider the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine to be combatants from the point of view of international humanitarian law. According to him, «the best thing that awaits them is a long prison term.» Later, Pinner and Aslin, on the air on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to facilitate their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk.«Collected from all over the world». Who is going to fight in Ukraine