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Three captured Brits fighting in Ukraine could face death penalty for 'monstrous crimes'
executed despite there being no precedent in the law for it. The pro-Putin leader of the puppet regime in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has warned Aiden Aslin, 28, Shaun Pinner, 48, and Andrew Hill, 35 that they could be executed for 'committing monstrous crimes'.Denis Pushilin spoke as the trial opened for the surrendered men who had fought alongside Ukrainian defenders before they were forced to wave the white flag.The British volunteer fighters are charged with commission of crimes by a group of persons, forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power, and mercenary activities.The maximum penalty is execution - believed to be by gun shot - if convicted of “combat operations” in “wartime” against the pro-Putin region, said a local law enforcement official.The talk of the death penalty is all the more abhorrent as neither Russia nor Ukraine, on the territory of which the DPR stands, permit executions.
