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Hello, it's the 105th day of the war in Ukraine.

Two Britons and a Moroccan national captured by Russian forces in Ukraine have appeared

in court, in territory held by pro-Russian rebels and Russian forces, so-called Donetsk

People's Republic, and a video emerged on Tuesday showing the three men basically in

a cage in the courtroom.

And again, they look young, and they have shaved their heads, they're wearing black hoodies,

one is wearing a green polo shirt, and the three only spoke to confirmed that they knew

what the charges were against them, and to say that they were okay for their cases to

proceed without the evidence of witnesses.

To be frank, things aren't looking good for them, because the so-called Donetsk People's

Republic has the death penalty, and the noises local officials have been making, and the

Russian media are distinctly threatening.

These three men are charged with being mercenaries and terrorists, and Russian media and officials

in Donetsk say, that's why the Geneva Convention does not apply to them, they cannot be exchanged

for Russian prisoners in Ukraine, so they are literally facing the death penalty.

But their families are saying they're not mercenaries, they're not terrorists, they

were in Ukraine's military.

Ukraine has what they call the international legion, where hundreds of people from all over

the world, Australia, Brazil, the UK, Morocco, who've come to Ukraine to defend it against

Russian aggression.

I've seen nothing to suggest that they are being paid enormous sums of money for their

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