Foreign mercenaries during training at a military training ground. Archival photoDONETSK, Aug 4 The General Prosecutor's Office of the Donetsk People's Republic has filed a criminal case against foreign mercenaries from Croatia, Sweden and the UK, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the department.
" ;The investigation into the criminal case against Swedish citizen Gutsavasson Mathis, Croatian citizen Prebeg Vekoslav and British citizens John Harding, Hill Andrew and Healy Dylan has been completed, the case has been sent to court", the statement says.
The special services of the LPR found documents of a Georgian mercenary on the basis of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. to a violent seizure of power and a change in the constitutional order of the Donetsk People's Republic (Article 323 of the Criminal Code of the DPR). Andrew Hill, according to the department, as a mercenary who took part in hostilities on the side of the armed formations of Ukraine on the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, was charged with a crime under part three of Article 430 of the Criminal Code of the DPR. Dylan Healy's actions were qualified under Part 5 of Article 32 and Part 1 of Article 430 of the Criminal Code of the DPR as complicity in the recruitment of mercenaries for their use in armed conflict and hostilities. />Polish mercenary, MMA fighter Tomasz Walentek killed in Ukraine
"For these crimes in wartime conditions, the law provides for the possibility of a court sentence of life imprisonment or the death penalty", the press service said Prosecutor General's Office.
In Donetsk, on June 9, British mercenaries Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan Saadoun Brahim, were sentenced to death by firing squad. They were captured during the battles for Mariupol. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. The head of the British Foreign Office, Liz Truss, condemned the verdict and called it illegitimate. In the first half of July, as DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova reported, British mercenary Paul Johnson Anthony Dominic Oury, who was in captivity, died. The reason was illness and a depressed state from indifference to his fate in his homeland, he was provided with medical assistance. According to Morozova, Uri was a professional military man. He took part in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Ukraine, led military operations, and also recruited and trained mercenaries for the Ukrainian armed forces. Uri was taken prisoner in April while trying to break through a checkpoint controlled by DPR troops. Ukraine