Zakharova: The death penalty is a clear example for all mercenaries

Marija Zakharova / Photo: EPA

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said today that the death sentences handed down to foreign fighters in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) were "a clear example for other mercenaries fighting for Ukraine."

"It seems so sharp as a clear example of all the other mercenaries fighting on the side of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis or just intending to join them, because this is a crime against the civilian population in Donbas," Zakharova said.

A court in the DNR has sentenced to death two Britons and a Moroccan who fought on the Ukrainian side on charges of being mercenaries.

Russian separatists in Ukraine have sentenced three captured foreign soldiers to death

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