Judge's gavel. File photoMOSCOW, June 6The trial of British mercenaries has begun in the DPR, capital punishment is not ruled out, said the head of the republic, Denis Pushilin. a serious list of crimes. And today, as part of the first meeting, everything was announced and presented. Those articles that are presented to them, capital punishment is not ruled out here, «he said on the air of Rossiya 24. In early June, the chairman of the committee on criminal and to the administrative legislation of the People's Council of the DPR, Elena Shishkina told RIA Novosti that the first interim meeting of the tribunal could take place at the end of summer, it will be the «Mariupol Tribunal» — by analogy with the tribunals of the Second World War. The charter of the international tribunal for war criminals is being developed in accordance with all norms of international law, taking into account the criminal and criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation, the Donetsk People's Republic, Shishkina added. In April 2014, the Ukrainian authorities launched a military operation against the DPR and LPR, which declared independence after coup in Kyiv in February 2014. The issue of resolving the situation in Donbas was discussed, among other things, during the meetings of the contact group. However, even after the ceasefire agreements, skirmishes continued, and the DPR reported shelling of residential areas by Ukrainian heavy artillery. Moscow has repeatedly stated that Kyiv did not comply with the Minsk agreements and dragged out negotiations to resolve the conflict, and against this background, equipment was transferred from NATO to the borders of the Russian Federation. >The United States fears the return of American neo-Nazis fighting in UkraineIn February of this year, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
