Liz Truss has condemned the death sentence passed on two Britons as “an egregious breach of the Geneva Convention” as she held talks with her Ukrainian counterpart in a bid to secure their release.
The foreign secretary reaffirmed Britain’s support for Kyiv against “Putin’s barbaric invasion” after talking to Dmytro Kuleba over the case of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner who were convicted by pro-Russian separatists in what has widely been dismissed as a show trial.
