“…There is hardly any special desire to show humanism, but we will show it in the sense that they must come up for trial. If in the Russian Federation, then about 15 years, maybe 20, if in the Donetsk People’s Republic, I remind you once again, the death penalty is allowed there...”
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I really hope that we are showing this flexibility and delicacy right now, because in these very minutes before darkness falls the heroic evacuation, as you can see, of the AZOV battalion to the pre-trial detention center of the Donetsk People's Republic continues, and otherwise, after all those terrible photos and atrocities that we saw, these same people, for 8 years, it was they who shelled Novoazovsk for 8 years, the very city in which right now, at these minutes, they are receiving first aid, they killed civilians, women, children, pulled out the nails of military personnel. There is hardly any special desire to show humanism, but we will show it in the sense that they must come up for trial. If in the Russian Federation, then about 15 years, maybe 20, if in the Donetsk People’s Republic, I remind you once again, the death penalty is allowed there. And this is not because we are cruel people, just because they have killed too many, 13 thousand, according to the official statistics, killed for 8 years of the war in Donbass.