Zelensky will be tried as war criminal if Russia captures him

A lawmaker in the self-declared, Russia-backed Donetsk People's Republic accused Ukraine's president of sending 'neo-Nazis to Donbas to kill civilians.'

Speaking to Russia's state news agency Tass, Yelena Shishkina said the DPR would bring charges against the lawmakers who had led Ukraine since 2014, when Russia's Presidentannexed Crimea. These include Zelensky, former acting president Oleksandr Turchynov and former president Petro Poroshenko, she said.

She accused the three of putting their signatures"under orders to send neo-Nazis to Donbas to kill civilians here."SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images

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