They are volunteers. The fact Russia cannot and will not make a distinction between volunteers and mercenaries illustrates their lack of appreciation of universal principals, international conventions of war and the truth. They cannot be dealt with and should not be tolerated in European territory. The solution is clear. Send in NATO and eject them from Ukraine -all of it. Then wall off Russia from all civilized nations.
The U.S. government has been holding several dozen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay for more than 20 years without any trials or any legal recourse. The justification that is given for this is: (1) they aren’t in the U.S., so they are not subject to U.S. law, and (2) they are not covered by the Geneva Conventions because they were detained in a combat zone on foreign soil but are not citizens of the country where they were captured.
Tell me what makes either of these Americans any different than Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Russia should re-educate them and then have denounce the pervert Western plutocrats.
You should be denouncing the pervert Western plutocrats as well.
If we had minded our own business in the first place the war would likely be over with much less damage to Ukraine. Both sides are massively corrupt and this conflict between reprobates isn’t worth us being involved. I mostly blame our media for stoking up morons to go fight for our preferred gang of criminals in this conflict.
Bull, Russia is following the Law of War. These two guys are unlawful/illegal combatants. They have no rights.