British citizens Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 10 London has not contacted the leadership of the DPR about British mercenaries, said Eduard Basurin, deputy head of the People's Militia Department of the Donetsk People's Republic. «They just need a picture. No one came out ( Denis Vladimirovich (Pushilin, head of the DPR) was not contacted… they generally believe that this is a territory that does not exist, and it is above their dignity, probably, to talk with the leaders of our country. But this once again emphasizes «They don't need their citizens. They only need a picture. If there was a desire, they would find a way to talk to our leadership and find out if there is a chance to save the citizens of the United Kingdom,» Basurin said on Russia 1. On June 9, in the DPR, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to 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 Defense Ministry, 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.» » /> The Foreign Ministry called London's reaction to the sentence on mercenaries in the DPR a hysteria
