British citizen Sean Pinner sentenced to death in the DNR. File photoMOSCOW, June 10One of the Britons convicted in the DPR, Sean Pinner, advised the mercenaries not to come to Ukraine. I will say that doing combat missions, say, in Bosnia as part of the UN forces, or working in Ireland, or doing things like that is completely different,» he said in an interview with RT.
The head of the British Foreign Office called the verdict on British mercenaries in the DPR illegitimateAccording to him, in Ukraine he first encountered artillery, «Grad». “Probably yes, if you didn’t have any combat experience, don’t come. Here you will simply be crushed, and you will return back faster than you arrived. Plus, lack of knowledge of the language and the inability to communicate with someone. Your problems,” Pinner added. On June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death in Donetsk — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training in order to carry out terrorist activities.» According to the laws of the DPR, the verdict can be challenged within a month. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov, said that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.»
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