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Deputy Secretary General NATO said he was sure Sweden and Finland would join the Transatlantic military alliance despite objections from Turkey.
We are sure that Sweden and Finland will join our ranks,” Mircea Geoana told the Copenhagen Democracy Summit on Friday.
Ankara has accused the Nordic countries of holding people related to groups he considered terrorists”, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and had questioned their decision to stop exports of weapons to Turkey in 2019.
The British government says Russia must be responsible for the “fake trial” of two British citizens who have been sentenced to death in the People’s Republic of Donetsk who proclaimed themselves in East Ukraine for fighting against Russian troops.
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were sentenced on Thursday by a court run by a rebel supported by Russia in the DPR, which was not internationally recognized. Brahim Saadoun, a Moroccan citizen, was also sentenced to death.
British government minister Robin Walker said it was “illegal court in fake government” but London will use “all diplomatic channels to submit cases that this is a war prisoner that must be treated accordingly.”
He added that “Russia needs to be responsible” for their fate, in line with “Moscow’s responsibility under the Geneva Convention, for the treatment of war prisoners”.
The Governor of the Luhanansk Timur Ukraine region said “battles will occur for every house and every road” in the city of Severdonetsk.
Serhiy Haidai told the Associated Press news agency that Kyiv’s troops were currently controlling the industrial estate on the edge of the city, which has been the focus of Russia’s offensive in recent days.
