This is stated on the website of the Russian department.
“For our part, we have repeatedly informed the British Embassy in Moscow that on all issues of the captured British, one should contact the authorities of the Donetsk People's Republic or the Luhansk People's Republic.
As far as we understand, London did not show any initiative in this regard, even despite requests from the relatives of the mercenaries to the British authorities, ”she said.
Zakharova stressed that, contrary to the statements of British officials, Pinner and Aislin are precisely mercenaries.
“The mercenaries sent by the West to help the Kyiv nationalist regime are not combatants under international humanitarian law and do not have the right to the status of a prisoner of war,” the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
On June 9, a court in the Donetsk People's Republic issued death sentences to British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Eslin, as well as Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim, who fought on the side of Ukraine.
All three are going to appeal against the decision of the court on execution.