“First of all, our entire family is overwhelmed and saddened by the outcome of the illegal trial in the eyes of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic,” the family of British volunteer Shaun Pinner said on Saturday. “We hope that all parties will urgently work together to secure Shaun’s salvation or change. Our family, including his son and his Ukrainian wife, loves and misses him and we think of all the families who are in this dire situation,” he said.

The fate of his grandson was also told to the British BBC by the grandmother of another British citizen who was sentenced to death by Aiden Aslin in mid-April. Pamela Hall recognized him after capturing footage of one of Russia’s propaganda videos where she testified as a soldier captured in Mariupol.

I was horrified, absolutely terrified, my heart stopped… I know he is alive when I see him, but I can’t keep calm because I don’t know how they treat him,” she said, thinking it was her granddaughter at the time. She looked bruised and swollen in a Russian TV video.

Britain denounced the punishment of its two citizens as a “monstrous violation” of the Geneva Convention, where prisoners of war are entitled to immunity and should not be prosecuted for participating in hostilities.

In response to Thursday’s decision, London said it would prefer to negotiate with Ukrainian representatives to save them. Asked if Britain was considering negotiating the release of its citizens with Russia, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said: “We don’t make deals with the Russians on a regular basis.”

On Saturday, Ukraine’s legislature from the parliamentary security and defense committee said Ukraine is doing everything to save two British citizens and a Moroccan.

“Both the Ministry of Defense and the main intelligence unit dealing with the exchange of prisoners are taking all necessary measures to ensure the rescue of these foreign nationals,” Deputy Fedir Venislavsky told Reuters on national television. He did not give further details.

Relatives of the third convict İbrahim Sadun also demanded release. “Basically everyone who met Abraham loved him. Everyone who knew him was offended,” his friend Sasha Olezhnikov, who has known him for several years, told The Guardian.

The young Moroccan joined the Ukrainian army “because he had a strong feeling that Ukraine was facing injustice,” according to his other friend, Dmytry Chrabtsov, who met Sadun in 2019.

Their loved ones are trying to attract more attention on social networks with the hashtag #SaveBrahim. “We suffer so much that we are not in contact with him – if only he knew how much support he really has – how many people are interested in him, how many people are writing about it, how many people are posting about it,” added Olejniková.

However, the situation is not developing well for the captured soldiers. Depending on their environment, it is not possible to communicate and communicate with them. Also, Denis Pushilin, head of the Donetsk separatists, said on Sunday that the two British soldiers convicted this week will not receive amnesty. However, they can object.

Separatists from eastern Ukraine claim that both the British and Moroccans are mercenaries. The British authorities, however, claim that their citizens are members of the Ukrainian military and are therefore covered by the Geneva Convention. Among other things, it prohibits the prosecution of captured soldiers for ordinary military actions. According to his friends, there was a young Moroccan in the Ukrainian army.

Forty-eight-year-old Shaun Pinner was a soldier in the British Army. He moved to Ukraine in 2018. He has a Ukrainian wife and, according to his family, he has a three-year contract with the Ukrainian Marine Corps that expires later this year. According to his family, he wanted to engage in humanitarian activities in Ukraine after the contract expired.

Aslin, 28, has worked as a caregiver in the UK, according to the BBC. In Syria, the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group fought Kurdish troops. His fiancee is Ukrainian and he moved to Ukraine in 2018 and served in the Marine Corps of the Ukrainian forces in the same year. He holds British and Ukrainian citizenship.

Ibrahim Sadun, 21, moved to Ukraine to study in 2019. According to The Guardian, he was popular in the underground techno scene in Kiev. A few months before the start of the war in Ukraine, he joined the Ukrainian army and was sent to Mariupol.