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Russia: New Horizons Educational Marathon in Moscow: Day 1
MOSCOW (77WABC) — Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said Monday that the Geneva Conventions — a series of international agreements for the treatment of war prisoners – won’t apply to the two Americans believed to have been captured by Russian or pro-Russian forces in Ukraine in recent weeks.
“They should be held responsible for those crimes that they have committed,” he said to NBC News.
Russian media released video appearing to show the two men, 39-year-old Alexander Dreuke and 27-year-old Andy Hyunh. Peskov told NBC News that the two men were not enlisted in the Ukrainian army — meaning that they are not protected under the Geneva Conventions.
Earlier in June, one Moroccan and two British fighters who had been captured were sentenced to death by firing squad for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. The three men were tried and convicted in a Russian-backed separatist court in Donetsk, one of the two major regions in Ukraine’s Donbas.
