Shaun Pinner was sentenced to death on Thursday alongside compatriot Aiden Aslin and Moroccan national Brahim Saadoune.
London Relatives of a British man sentenced to death by a court in the pro-Russian, self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic have said they are"devastated" and that he"should be accorded all the rights of a prisoner of war" according to the Geneva Conventions.
"Firstly, our whole family is devastated and saddened at the outcome of the illegal show-trial by the so-called Donetsk People's Republic," Shaun Pinner's family said in a statement issued by the UK Foreign Office on Saturday.
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