The family of a British man sentenced to death for fighting Russian forces said on Saturday that they are “devastated and saddened” by the outcome of what they called an “illegal show trial.”
Shaun Pinner, 48, a former British Army soldier who relocated to Ukraine in 2018 and joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was treated as a mercenary and sentenced to death on Thursday by the Supreme Court of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic.
