Enlisted, you don t have to be a member, you don t have to have a contract necessarily with the ukrainian army to be protected under the geneva convention. all you have to do as a fighter here in a conflict according to the geneva convention is to be fighting openly, wearing a uniform, and fighting in unit, under a responsible command, so the fact that peskov is saying they are not members of the ukrainian military, clearly that is worrying for the human rights lawyers and the international community watching. and molly, we received word overnight that a second american has been killed while fighting in ukraine. what more can you tell us? yes, jonathan, we do know of course that there are a lot of americans including of course, the two americans we were just speaking about, and this, this news came from the local newspaper, from the hometown, steven, 52 years old, and according to the information
Turning to our world lead, the state department has confirmed a second american has been killed in combat in ukraine. 52-year-old steven oblisky s obituary said he died in mid-may and was fighting in sourb ukraine. this comes as a kremlin spokesperson said the geneva convention that sets out how soldiers are to be treated in war time does not apply, they say, to the two captured american fighters held by rus russian-backed separatists. the families of more than a dozen detained americans are demanding a face-to-face meeting with president biden. a dire new threat from russia to the lives of two americans captured in ukraine. the kremlin spokesperson claiming alexander drueke and andy huynh are soldiers of fortune and not protected by the rules governing prisoners of war. dimitri peskov saying this when asked if they would be spared the death sentence. i cannot guarantee anything. it depends on the investigation. their families tell cnn both men were fighting in the
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