Judgement against jailed British men breaches Geneva convention - UK's Truss

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Britain's foreign minister Liz Truss said on Friday that the judgment against two British men sentenced to death by a court in one of Russia's proxies in eastern Ukraine was a breach of the Geneva convention.
"The judgment against them is an egregious breach of the Geneva convention," Truss said in a tweet after she spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to discuss efforts to secure the release of prisoners of war held by Russian proxies.
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