Russian servicemen. Archival photoMOSCOW, 15 Jun. The British newspaper Telegraph writes that the Russian military allegedly captured two American mercenaries in the suburbs of Kharkov. «Two former American soldiers were captured during a battle with Russian forces in Ukraine. They were captured during a fierce battle in the suburbs of Kharkiv last week,” the publication claims, citing their colleagues.The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the stationing point for foreign mercenaries near Fedorovka They, according to the publication, became the first Americans captured by the Russian military. According to media reports, Dryuke previously served in Iraq. His mother said he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after returning. John Kirby, National Security Council coordinator for strategic communications at the White House, said on Wednesday that the White House is aware of reports of US citizens captured in Ukraine, but cannot confirm the authenticity. of this information. Sentence to mercenaries in the DPR Previously, the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced two citizens of Britain and one citizen of Morocco, who fought on the side of Ukrainian militants, to capital punishment. According to the legislation of the republic, the sentenced British Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner, as well as the Moroccan Saadoun Brahim, will be shot. Convicts can appeal the decision within a month.
In the city of Privolye in the LPR, foreign mercenaries were destroyedThe mercenaries pleaded guilty to actions aimed at the forcible seizure of power. The relevant article of the Criminal Code of the DPR provides for the death penalty. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training in order to carry out terrorist activities.» The mercenaries surrendered in Mariupol in mid-April.Special operation in UkraineRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, emphasized that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.» He noted that foreign fighters do not have the status of combatants under international humanitarian law. Who is going to fight in Ukraine
