Two Britons, one Moroccan sentenced to death by court of Russian proxy in Ukraine


FILE PHOTO: Houses burn after shelling, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in the town of Marinka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine June 3, 2022. Picture taken June 3, 2022. REUTERS/Anna Kudriavtseva

LONDON (Reuters) -Two Britons and a Moroccan who were captured while fighting for Ukraine were sentenced to death on Thursday by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported.

The court found the three men - Britons Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and Moroccan Brahim Saadoun - guilty of "mercenary activities and committing actions aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the DPR", the Interfax news agency quoted a court official as saying.

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