Earlier we brought you the news that the UK’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss had spoken with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba about the death sentences given to three men – two Britons and one Moroccan – by a court in Donetsk.
The three men had been members of Ukraine’s military and were captured in April while defending the besieged city of Mariupol.
Kuleba has now tweeted about the call, saying he and Truss “coordinated efforts to step up pressure on Russia”.
“I look forward to the next round of UK sanctions,” he said. “We both agreed that no one in the world has a right to get weary of this war until Ukraine prevails.”
And he added that both he and Truss “strongly condemned the sham trial against prisoners of war in the Russian-occupied Donetsk. As combatants, they are protected by international humanitarian law and must be treated accordingly. We keep working together to ensure their release.”
Earlier, Truss called the sentences “an egregious breach of the Geneva Convention”.
