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Russia-Ukraine war: fierce fighting in Sievierodonetsk after chemical plant sheltering civilians hit – live
Battles raging in key city in eastern Ukraine after Azot chemical plant hit in Russian strike on Saturday
Ukraine fears western support will fade as media loses interestEU will likely grant Ukraine candidate status to join blocZelenskiy ‘didn’t want to hear’ Russia warnings, says Joe BidenWhat we know on day 109 of the invasionThe UK’s Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis has condemned the death sentences given to two British men and a Moroccan national captured while fighting in the Ukrainian army in Mariupol.
Speaking on the Sophie Ridge show on Sky News Lewis called the move “despicable” and said the men had been put through a “sham trial”
Really I think it backs up what we’ve all seen in this abhorrent process that Putin has followed in terms of an unwarranted attack on Ukraine in the general way that Putin’s regime is acting. It’s pretty despicable actually.
I do know the foreign secretary is in close contact with her counterparts in Ukraine to do everything we can to support the individuals and support and work with Ukraine to get the right outcome to this what is a disgraceful situation.
It sums up pretty much the whole way that Putin and his regime have acted over the last few months.
Well, as I say, it’s difficult to go into the details of any particular case and obviously particularly without the consent of those individuals but the foreign secretary and the Prime Minister, I know are fully engaged on this, working with the Ukrainians, because they were serving Ukrainian armed forces and therefore they are protected by the Geneva Convention.
It’s something that all governments around the world have respected for decades now, and it’s something that Russia should respect as well.
[He] is a bright and enthusiastic guy, dreaming about the technology of the future and how he could change things. He told me and a few other guys that he wants to die as a hero.
There is no place in this world for execution. It’s inhuman. I (have) lost all words.
Not all students who come here at 20 years old are going into the military to defend somebody else’s border.
As he described it to me, and as I feel it myself, (he is not) a common human being who is happy doing an office job.
He told me that he was in a complicated situation and was surrounded, but that he was in a defensive position.
We’re trying to help our friend, help our defenders. They feel they need to be there, they have a sense of justice... and we need to do our job and not look (away).
[The Russians] are raising their value by providing the information that they were captured, are in jail, that they could get executed. They are just blackmailing us.
We met almost every weekend. It was common to take a car to a lake, with a company of 10 friends, have a BBQ, have some rest.
The moment he decided to join our military, I told him that I do not have any doubt you will survive, and that I will see you at least one more time, that we will meet each other and have a good party with all of our friends.
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