Rose@lemmy.zip to Ukraine@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 4 days agoRussian student who planned to fight for Ukraine faces terror charges after prisoner swap returnnovayagazeta.euexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up162arrow-down10
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minus-squareRose@lemmy.zipOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 days agoCould you cite a legal document to that end? Per the cited court decision, he was an illegal immigrant awaiting deportation.
minus-squareHubi@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days agoYou’re right, that case is different because he crossed into Ukraine by himself. I missed that bit in the article. The law only applies to POWs.
minus-squareWorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 days agoSo fucking stupid. I guess you have to go with the intent to kill Ukranians, and then change your mind to be protected. Actual supporters not wanted.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 days agoPrisoners of war get treated like prisoners of war. Well, by Ukraine, anyway.
minus-squareTuukka R@sopuli.xyzMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoYes, but that’s irrelevant here. This guy was not a POW.
minus-squareTar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoExactly. So he doesn’t get treated like one either
minus-squareNorah (pup/it/she)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoSounds like he would have had a pretty legit claim to asylum…
Could you cite a legal document to that end? Per the cited court decision, he was an illegal immigrant awaiting deportation.
You’re right, that case is different because he crossed into Ukraine by himself. I missed that bit in the article. The law only applies to POWs.
So fucking stupid. I guess you have to go with the intent to kill Ukranians, and then change your mind to be protected.
Actual supporters not wanted.
Prisoners of war get treated like prisoners of war.
Well, by Ukraine, anyway.
Yes, but that’s irrelevant here. This guy was not a POW.
Exactly. So he doesn’t get treated like one either
Why should he get?
Sounds like he would have had a pretty legit claim to asylum…