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 11Britain and Morocco have the opportunity to send lawyers for convicted citizens, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic, Natalia Nikonorova. «Officially, none of these states has contacted us, that is, they absolutely do not care about the fate of their citizens … There are different formats. Perhaps , they could have sent a lawyer for a citizen of their country. But absolutely nothing has been done,» the head of the DPR Foreign Ministry said on the air of the Solovyov Live project. jpg» />The DPR is preparing a trial of a mercenary from South Korea. She stressed that the DPR itself provided them with its lawyers. According to her, now «they are trying to whitewash these people retroactively, saying that they have Ukrainian citizenship, that they were military personnel» of Ukraine. At the same time, during the process, the foreign citizens themselves did not mention their Ukrainian citizenship, and therefore they “fit all the signs of mercenaries,” Nikonorova added. In this regard, she rejected the statements of British Foreign Minister Liz Truss and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who indicated, That the convicts are prisoners of war. The announced June in the DPR were sentenced to shoot three foreigners captured in Mariupol — two subjects of Great Britain, Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a citizen of Morocco Saadun 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 Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Igor Konashenkov stated that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and the “best that awaits them is a long time in prison”. British mercenary Aslin spoke about the conditions of captivity
