"Foreign mercenaries - in this case, these are the British, who committed quite serious crimes - today, as part of the first meeting, the charges were announced and brought," TASS reports Pushilin's words.
He noted that a trial is underway, but "this is not quite a tribunal yet."
Earlier it became known that the Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic began to consider the case against a group of foreign mercenaries from Britain and Morocco.
At the end of April, the DPR General Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against the mercenaries.
At the end of May, the investigation of the case was completed.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office of the DPR, according to the results of the trial, the mercenaries may be sentenced to death.