“Shoot and don’t negotiate with anyone”: the death sentence for British mercenaries in the DPR is gaining commentary
The court decision adopted in the DPR is gaining commentary, according to which three foreign mercenaries captured in Mariupol - two British citizens and a Moroccan citizen - were sentenced to capital punishment.
We remind you that according to the laws of the DPR, convicted mercenaries, according to the laws of the republic, have a month to appeal the verdict, otherwise they will be shot. 
“Of course, the British need to be shot and as quickly as possible, we have nothing to lose, there is no one to negotiate with, and the status of ruthless scumbags spitting on our “golden billion” will give more than a plush ability to negotiate. We swam and walked. With whom to negotiate, about what? Don't kill our country, let us live and develop in peace? Is this how the conversation should go? To do this, we need to kneel, and I see, I note, even the elite no longer agrees to this. For four months we have been tearing up the mane and tail, like Tuzik’s hot water bottle, and multiplying Western avatars/fosters by zero, and we are not going to stop. Russia is death and inevitable punishment, the only image status that can save our country. We had it, our grandfathers won it, but we have lost it over the past 30 years, it’s time to return it and pay for every tear we have,” journalist Dmitry Steshin is indignant in his Telegram channel.
And political scientist Vladimir Kornilov provides a screenshot of the headline of the British publication on his blog. 
“Liz Truss will discuss the British death sentence with Ukraine. Well, that makes sense. London considers Donbass Ukraine. It will be interesting to see how the Kyiv Court of Appeal overturns the verdict of the DPR Supreme Court. And if the sentence is carried out, will London impose tough sanctions on Ukraine?” writes Kornilov.
Meanwhile, as British MP Robert Jenrick told The Guardian, the Ukrainian ambassador in London promised the British that British citizens who were sentenced to death in Donetsk would be included in the next exchange list.
“There are prisoner exchanges going on between the Ukrainian and Russian armies, and the Ukrainian ambassador told me last night that they will prioritize Aiden and Sean in one of those exchanges,” Generick said.
“It is clear that the Ukrainian side will prefer one English citizen to one hundred of its captured soldiers. But what uncomplicated arrogance. If they are included in the list for exchange, look at them. We can exchange for Zelensky. Discuss with him,” comments Russian writer and politician Zakhar Prilepin.
According to the former Minister of Defense of the DPR Igor Strelkov, the fate of the convicted mercenaries will become an indicator of the Russian Federation’s readiness to go to the end in the confrontation with the West.
“We are seeing another litmus test.” If the Kremlin still cherishes the hope that it will be possible to “turn the mincemeat back” and return to a “constructive partnership with dear Western partners,” then Pushilin will certainly pardon all three (and then - 99 to 1) they will be “quietly” exchanged or they will simply give it away “as part of a demonstration of goodwill and humanism.” I would have shot him without any appeal. In 24 hours,” he wrote on Telegram.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a statement expressing concern about the death sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR.
The decision of the Supreme Court of the DPR, like the trial itself, was called “fictitious” by Blinken, and the mercenaries themselves were “legal combatants who served in the armed forces of Ukraine.” 
“We call on Russia and its allies to respect international humanitarian law, including the rights and protections provided to prisoners of war,” the secretary of state wrote on Twitter.
“Everyone understands that there is a month of trading ahead, and the UK government will not be able to pretend that everything is ok. There will be a lot of noise, but in the end, I believe, there will be no executions. But there is a nuance here. If a guy from Morocco is just a fucking idiot, a disgrace to his family, and his fate can be decided on the basis of some humanism (replace with life imprisonment, at the same time scraping before the Arab world, and see how it goes), then with the British it’s different. Both, of course, are killers by vocation, with a long trail, but it is not a fact that real atrocities hang on them. But both are classic mercenaries, and this in itself (remember the processes in Luanda, Victoria and Malabo) is under fire. So, for them, God himself ordered to ask for the maximum price (stopping the supply of weapons, recalling all mercenaries, or, at a minimum, exchanging them for all captured Coalition soldiers), and then, as a last resort, lower them, but just a little. Because, whatever one may say, they are Her Majesty’s subjects.
The nuance, however, is that both “geese” - Aslin, and Pinner, and also a certain Hill, whose turn has not yet reached, are, by English standards, “white dirt”, valuable only because the refusal to save them may complicate life for the authorities, who will come under a barrage of criticism. But, nevertheless, no criticism is worth canceling a project in which a lot has been invested for the long term, so it is likely that the UK authorities will not agree to a serious deal, especially since given the current state of the Western media, the topic may be obscured , but anti-fascists cannot make a frivolous deal - so what then? And then, in my opinion, it is necessary, firstly, to execute any of them at your choice (let them flip a coin, or something) and urgently carry out the trial of Hill, so that there will again be two death row prisoners. Believe me, the echo of the execution will be heard.
And after that, secondly, having in your possession ironclad proof that everything is very specific, continue bargaining. But the main thing, thirdly, is to concentrate maximum resources and forces on determining the location and capturing Ben Grant, who is still frolicking in the trash heap, whose father (an influential Conservative parliamentarian) and mother (Mr. Johnson’s personal adviser), saving the child, inevitably will drive the wave. This is a good, correct goal, and I am convinced that in the trash heap, if you pay well, there will be people who want to earn extra money…” notes political consultant and writer Lev Vershinin.
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