Lavrov ‘Not Interested’ in West’s Views on Foreigners Captured in Ukraine, Calls Them ‘Mercenaries’

Amid reports that two U.S. citizens fighting with Ukrainian forces against the Russians may have been captured, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday batted away Western concerns about two Britons recently sentenced to death by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine, saying that “mercenaries” are not combatants.  Read