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that this is a court which is not recognised by any country in the world apart from russia. so there are grave concerns that any sort of free and fairjustice can be administered here. also, in terms of the next steps, we are reliant on what russian state media is saying, in terms of an appeal process. apparently, the men have 30 days to launch an appeal. the indications are that they will do that. also, we are hearing that it could be the man who runs this so called people s republic of donetsk, he could step in and reduce the sentence, so that the men do not face execution by firing squad, but they spend their lives in prison, or at least 25 years in prison. but if we are talking about how one man can affect the fate of the two britons and the moroccan man, surely it s vladimir putin. he is the man who decides the fate of all three of them. what is the latest you are hearing about the fighting in the east of the country? yes, still grim assessments of the fighting that grinds on there
well we talked to officials and they say they re watching what russia is doing, watching what russian state media is saying and also paying attention to what the russians are not doing and that s pulling the troops back from the border. as you heard multiple officials say today, only adding to them, of course we learned 7,000 figure last night with some of them arriving as recently as yesterday and you also heard the defense secretary today talking about the other steps they re taking. shoring up blood supplies, bolstering support embassy, the aircraft they re adding, all these steps that they re taking that they re saying is only adding to their capacity to carry out an invasion. and so president biden today putting a timeline on it saying he believes this could happen within days and we should also note that for president biden, he s been having these nearly daily conversations with other world leaders, of course on saturday, two big ones with zelensky and president putin as well,