Charges against mercenaries from the UK were presented at a court session on Monday, June 6, in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR). This was stated by its head Denis Pushilin.
“The foreign mercenaries – in this case it is the British, who have committed quite serious crimes – today in the first session the charges were already voiced and presented,” he said on the air of the TV channel “Russia 24”.
Pushilin specified that the trial of the aforementioned mercenaries was not part of the tribunal.
The day before, the DNR Prosecutor General’s Office announced that it had completed the investigation and submitted the case of British citizen Aiden Aslin to the court. It was specified that he had taken part in hostilities as a mercenary on the side of Kiev. The agency noted that given the wartime situation, the man could face an exceptional punishment – the death penalty.
As the 28-year-old Aiden Aslin said, he was captured in Mariupol in mid-April.
In 2018, after falling in love with a woman from Nikolaev, he moved to Ukraine.
Earlier, on April 20, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Russia to treat the prisoners with mercy. According to him, another Briton, Sean Pinner, and Aslin were members of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, not mercenaries. In addition, the head of the government said that the authorities of the United Kingdom were against British people taking part in combat operations in Ukraine.
Earlier, on 18 April, two British citizens who surrendered in Ukraine – Sean Pinner and Aidan Aslin – asked Prime Minister Boris Johnson for assistance in exchanging them for the Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk.
Aslin then said that if Boris Johnson really cares about British citizens, as he says he does, then he would help put pressure on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to do the right thing and return Ukrainian opposition politician Viktor Medvedchuk to his family and them to their families.
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