British citizen Sean Pinner, citizen of the Kingdom of Morocco Saadoun Brahim and British citizen Aiden Eslin in a courtroom in Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, June 9Foreign mercenaries, two British and one Moroccan, were sentenced to death in the DPR for actions aimed at seizing power by force, and one of them also pleaded guilty under the article «Training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities»; the authorities of the countries native to the mercenaries did not try to contact the authorities of the DPR, and the head of the British Foreign Ministry limited herself to a statement on Twitter about the illegitimacy of the process and that «in her mind she is with their families.» headquarters of the territorial defense of the DPR. They also said that Ukrainian troops in this direction are using the population of the city as a human shield. As official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov said during a morning briefing, the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed a training center with foreign mercenaries in the Zhytomyr region with a strike of high-precision missiles. During a briefing on Thursday he also stated that Russian sappers had begun demining the Holy Mountains National Park in the DPR. In addition, he said, Russian troops destroyed more than 300 enemy soldiers and officers in a day.
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The Ukrainian army mined the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk — up to 300 civilians can be in its basements, Apty Alaudinov, assistant to the head of the Chechen Republic for the power unit, told RIA Novosti. Later, this information was confirmed by the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mizintsev, specifying that Ukrainian militants mined containers with nitric acid, ammonia and ammonium nitrate. in indiscriminate strikes against civilian infrastructure. At the same time, at the coking plant in Avdiivka, the Ukrainian troops, the head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation also said, mined containers with toxic substances that they want to blow up when the Russian military approaches in order to delay the offensive with the resulting poisonous cloud.
Yesterday, 13:57InfographicMap of the special operation of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine on 06/09/2022InfographicViewTrial of foreign mercenaries in the DPRThe Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced two Britons and one Moroccan citizen who fought on the side of Ukrainian militants to capital punishment — the death penalty. The mercenaries were charged under articles 323 «forcible seizure of power» and part 3 of article 430 «mercenarism», in particular, the participation of a mercenary in hostilities. ask for pardon. According to him, one of the foreigners who fought on the side of Kyiv, Briton Sean Pinner, was recognized as a terrorist in his homeland, and was also wanted for participating in hostilities in Iraq and Syria.
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Denis Pushilin, head of the DPR, commented on the fate of the mercenaries: according to him, representatives of Morocco or Great Britain did not appeal to the authorities of the republic in connection with the court decision, and it seems that «they do not care about the fate of their citizens, Great Britain, Morocco.» At the same time, Pushilin clarified that there is a possibility of pardoning them, but in the republic itself the sentence against mercenaries is «perceived as a triumph of justice.» The head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, called the militants an illegitimate and fictitious sentence on Twitter, saying that she «mentally with them families», and adding that the country's authorities are doing everything they can to support them.
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Shelling of DonetskThe capital of the Donetsk People's Republic has been subjected to massive shelling from Ukraine for more than a day: during Thursday, Kuibyshevsky, Kyiv, Petrovsky and Kalininsky districts were under attack, and the fire was fired from guns of various calibers. At least one woman died due to shelling. According to the official representative of the People's Militia of the Republic, Eduard Basurin, the number of shelling of residential areas has decreased, but the situation is still difficult. NATO: fragments of a 155 mm shell were found at the «arrival» site.
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The situation in the liberated territoriesKherson region plans to hold a referendum on joining Russia this year, Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the military-civilian administration of the region, told RIA Novosti. And in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian language will receive the status of the state language in the near future, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the region, told the agency. from Russian banks is launching complex banking services for people and businesses in the Donbass republics, the press service of the credit organization reported. As a RIA Novosti correspondent was convinced, Promsvyazbank ATMs have already started working in the LPR — for the first time in a long time in the republic it became possible to withdraw cash from Russian cards. International situationVladimir Zelensky imposed personal sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as against Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, Head of the Government Staff Dmitry Grigorenko. The sanctions have been imposed indefinitely, among them are the blocking of assets, the restriction of trade operations in terms of the ban on export-import operations, and the prevention of the withdrawal of capital from Ukraine. The British newspaper The Independent reported that, according to intelligence data, Ukrainian troops are 20 times inferior to Russian troops in artillery, in terms of ammunition — 40 times, in terms of range — 12 times, plus the Ukrainian side has almost completely run out of missiles for the Smerch and Uragan MLRS. jpg» />The United States revealed how the approval of Ukraine's application for EU membership will result