The leader of Vladimir Putin’s backed separatist Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will refuse to pardon the two captured British fighters and said “they should be sentenced to capital punishment.”
Denis Pushlin will not grant clemency for Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, along with a Moroccan Sadun Brahim, 21.
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The three fighters who were captured in eastern Ukraine appeared in a sham show trial last week and were told they will be “sentenced to death” by a “firing squad” for their “monstrous crimes.”
In footage shown on Zvezda channel, controlled by Putin’s defence ministry, Pushilin said, “As for possible exchanges, pardons and other things, at this moment I do have the right to pardon these people in accordance with our legislation.
“But I do not see any preconditions for me to move in this direction.”
He said, “With the mercenaries, two British, one Moroccan – there was a court hearing, a direct court hearing, they were given lawyers….
“Their crimes can be classified as grave and especially grave crimes.
“It was easy enough to predict…that they should be sentenced to capital punishment.
“My personal opinion is that this is just punishment for those people who came to kill civilians for money from other countries.”
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