MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. The three foreign mercenaries whom the Donetsk People’s Republic’s court sentenced to death on Thursday have thirty days to use the right of appeal, the DPR’s leader, Denis Pushilin, said on Russia’s TV Channel One.

"As far as the further steps are concerned, there is a one-month deadline for filing an appeal. It remains to be seen whether they will use this right," he said.

The Supreme Court of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on Thursday sentenced to death two British nationals: Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as Moroccan Brahim Saadoun for participating in hostilities on the side of the Ukrainian armed forces in the capacity of mercenaries.

The Prosecutor General's Office earlier said that the defendants’ testimony confirmed their complicity in crimes as defined in part 2 of article 34 (crimes committed by a group of persons), article 323 (forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power) and article 430 (mercenarism) of the DPR Criminal Code. After the verdict was read out the presiding judge said the convicts had the right to appeal the sentence.