Wish we could see that in the west.

I mean, where do you think the rest of the WHO’s funding comes from?

$500m over 5 years isn’t even that much for the world’s second biggest economy, that barely breaks them into the top 10 funders. Certainly welcome given Trump’s withdrawal but back when the US was lead by marginally sane people, it was providing twice that amount every year.

No, what’s on second.

Well, who are they donating the money to? Don’t leave us in suspense like that.

It says he was convicted in a Russian-controlled court which is not at all the same thing. International law is clear on this and Russia is clearly breeching it.

Try putting some more effort into your trolling, I quoted the actual appropriate law.

He is a member of the International Legion for the Defence of Ukraine and as such is unambiguously not a mercenary by the definition used in the Geneva Convention and so is owed the protections afforded to prisoners of war.

Specifically, article 47 of Protocol 1 is clear that a neccesary condition to be considered a mercenary is that a person:

is not a member of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict

The fact that Russia has a history of ignoring this is not the knock-out argument you seem to think it is.

What’s a little contravention of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War between friends?

You’re also not really supposed to dig military tunnels under schools…