The pro-Putin leader of the puppet regime in so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has warned three British "mercenaries" that they could be executed for ‘committing monstrous crimes’.
Denis Pushilin spoke on the day the trial opened of the surrendered men who had fought alongside Ukrainian defenders.
Aiden Aslin, 28, Shaun Pinner, 48, and Andrew Hill, 35, have already been warned that they face the death penalty - even though neither Russia nor Ukraine, on the territory of which the DPR stands, permit executions.
