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A pair of former U.S. military servicemen captured fighting in defense of Ukraine “have committed crimes,” according to a top Kremlin aide.
“They have committed crimes,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told NBC in a broadcast interview. “They are not Ukrainian army, so they are not subject to [the] Geneva Conventions.”
The pronouncement that Moscow will treat the men, respectively veterans of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, as “mercenaries” raises the odds that Moscow aims to assign them a death sentence, either as a punitive act or to gain leverage in a negotiation for their release. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team has trodden carefully in public discussion of their cases, but a prominent State Department official emphasized that Russia has committed to following international law regarding prisoners-of-war…
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