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epa10006002 British citizens Aiden Aslin (L) and Shaun Pinner (R) and Moroccan Saaudun Brahim (C) attend a sentencing hearing at the Supreme Court of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, 09 June 2022 (issued 10 June 2022). On 09 June 2022, DPR's Supreme Court sentenced two British nationals and a Moroccan national to death. The three men, who fought for the Ukrainian Armed Forces and then surrendered, were accused by local authorities of participating in hostilities on the side of Ukraine as mercenaries. On 24 February Russian troops had entered Ukrainian territory in what the Russian president declared a 'special military operation', resulting in fighting and destruction in the country and a humanitarian crisis. EPA/STRINGER