Aiden Aslin: Last News

One of five Britons released from captivity by Russian-backed forces has said he did not believe he would survive the ordeal.

Russian soldiers at war have been laid bare by a Brit who suffered the torment first hand.Aiden Aslin fully expected to be executed or imprisoned by Vladimir Putin's army for decades after surrendering to them in Mariupol, Ukraine in April.The Nottinghamshire native, however, has now returned home to his family having served in Ukraine's military since 2018. READ MORE: Freed Brit Aiden Aslin thanks Elon Musk's Starlink for call home before Russian captureHe has made it his mission to raise awareness of the atrocities being committed by Russian forces to prisoners of war, in breach of the Geneva Convention.Taking to Twitter on Wednesday morning, Aiden, from Newark, said: "If people want to know how bad it got, just imagine hearing someone be beat to death who only just arrived after completing the crawl of beating which every POW goes though with a bag on their head from the processing area to the cell."Making light of his hell which he experienced alongside fellow freed Brit Shaun Pinner, Aiden shared a meme taken from the 2018 film Buster Scruggs.In the photo, actor James Franco can be seen looking to his left and smiling on docks with a noose around his neck.Aiden captioned the image: "When the new Westerner arrives in your prison scared of getting the death sentence in a kangaroo court.""First time?" the character asks.

Russian soldiers, Shaun Pinner celebrated his homecoming with a McDonald's Egg McMuffin. Shaun, 48, was one of five Brits freed this week following a prisoner swap. He landed back in the UK at 6am on Thursday (September 22) with Aiden Aslin, 28, John Harding, 59, Dylan Healy, 22, and Andrew Hill, 35.British Army veteran Shaun was captured fighting for Ukraine during the Russian siege of Mariupol in April.

Five Brits who were captured by Russian-backed forces have been released and said they were welcomed onto a plane by ex-Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

Ukraine and sentenced to death, is on his way back to the UK. Prime Minister Liz Truss has confirmed that a total of five British nationals who were being held in eastern Ukraine have been freed.

Putin rebel leader has said on Kremlin state TV that Brits banged up in Ukraine and Russian separatist states "absolutely deserve to die". Denis Pushilin is the separatist leader who will ultimately determine the fate of British fighters including Sean Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, charged with fighting as “mercenaries” in eastern Ukraine and killing civilians, despite being part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.Pushilin, head of the pro-Putin statelet known as the Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR], said that executions by shooting squad would not be carried out on live TV.READ MORE: Horror find as 20 bags full of human remains discovered in hidden graveWives and parents would have no right to know the fate of their loved ones, he indicated.He told Russian propagandist TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov: “Given the crimes that all those scoundrels [foreign fighters] have committed, there is a strong demand from people, from civil society, for the death penalty — which they absolutely deserve”..Frontman Solovyov stated: “In any case, it will not be public.“I mean the (executions)“All the procedures will be non-public from some point on.”Pushilin replied:” “Absolutely right, that's what the DPR legislation says.“Enforcement and the absence of any information on requests even from relatives are all stipulated by the DPR legislation concerning the execution of capital punishment.” And there is now a suspicion that the process will be pushed through ahead of an expected Putin bid to incorporate the DPR and neighbouring Luhansk Peoples Republic [LPR] into Russia after a “bogus referendum”.

Russian court.Andrew Hill, John Harding and Dylan Healy also face terrorism charges with their trial beginning next week. They are currently being held by pro-Russian separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic.

Russian spies forced UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to tender his resignation is the message Vladimir Putin’s forces fighting against Ukraine are being taught in a Soviet-style programme of “political education”.The outgoing PM's resignation “is the result of a Russian intelligence operation”, fighters were told by Dr Alexander Kholin, who is an “intelligence and political expert”.Dr Kholin was flown to the Black Sea fleet stand-in flagship Admiral Makarov warship for the session by a Defence Ministry helicopter.READ MORE: Plastic surgeon 'kept patient captive for two months after botched tummy tuck'He is also said to have told the 200 or so crew that a “public execution” will be held “in the near future” of British “mercenaries” detained in the war.Dr Kholin could be referring to Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, and Watford, Hertfordshire respectively, who had been defending the city of Mariupol when they were captured in April.Reports suggest that pro-Russian separatist groups in eastern Ukraine have said they are “preparing a place for the execution”.Kholin apparently added, in a programme of disinformation seen as indoctrination, that President Joe Biden has a hidden illness and will likely die in the next year.A report by Cheka-OGPU Telegram channel said the naval crew were lectured by Dr Kholin.He told assembled naval officers that the real reason Mr Johnson was quitting was due to a clandestine espionage sting by Russian spies, said Cheka-OGPU.No further details were given of the alleged spy sting.Dr Kholin also made claims about the US president for the crew of the frigate Admiral Makarov, which replaces the sunken Moskva cruiser.Mr Biden was “very ill and with a high degree of

Ukraine pleaded guilty to “undergoing training with the aim of carrying out terrorist activities” in a Russian kangaroo court.The supreme court of the Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) has sentenced Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner to death on charges of them going to war against Vladimir Putin's army as mercenaries.The Sun reported that the men thought they were legal combatants entitled to be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, and said that the men were forced into a false confession. Shaun Pinner, a former waste manager from Watford, Hertfordshire, told the publication on April 25: “We’re scared to death.

Two British soldiers captured whilst fighting in Ukraine have been 'sentenced to death' and are now set to face a firing squad it has been reported.

Two British soldiers captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by pro-Moscow rebels in what Foreign Secretary Liz Truss branded a "sham judgment."

Russia is attempting to link a British "mercenary" facing a possible "death penalty" to a "mass grave" which allegedly contains over 280 civilian corpses in Ukraine. A state-run news agency claimed to have snapped a "diary" of fighter Andrew Hill, 35, from Plymouth, who surrendered to Vladimir Putin's army.

executed despite there being no precedent in the law for it. The pro-Putin leader of the puppet regime in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic has warned Aiden Aslin, 28, Shaun Pinner, 48, and Andrew Hill, 35 that they could be executed for 'committing monstrous crimes'.Denis Pushilin spoke as the trial opened for the surrendered men who had fought alongside Ukrainian defenders before they were forced to wave the white flag.The British volunteer fighters are charged with commission of crimes by a group of persons, forcible seizure of power or forcible retention of power, and mercenary activities.The maximum penalty is execution - believed to be by gun shot - if convicted of “combat operations” in “wartime” against the pro-Putin region, said a local law enforcement official.The talk of the death penalty is all the more abhorrent as neither Russia nor Ukraine, on the territory of which the DPR stands, permit executions.

Putin army after he went to fight in Ukraine has been dragged in front of a court and accused of being a mercenary.Aiden Aslin from Newark, Nottinghamshire, was captured in the city of Mariupol back in April by forces from the separatist Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which is supported by Russia.The 28-year-old who goes by the name "Johnny" quit his job as a caseworker back home to volunteer with Ukrainian marines back in 2018.Following his capture earlier this year, horrifying images emerged showing him in a beaten state, raising his arms to reveal the handcuffs keeping his wrists tied.With a nasty looking bruise on his forehead, Aiden also appeared to have suffered a swollen right eye.Now, a DPR court says Mr Aslin has been charged with operating as a mercenary and could potentially face the death penalty.A statement from their Telegram published in Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti read: "Taking into account wartime, based on the provisions of the current criminal law, as a result of the trial, the mercenary may be given an exceptional measure of punishment – the death penalty"The report also suggested that a long prison sentence could also be likely.For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.Following the capture of Aiden and other foreign volunteer fighters, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov commented that "foreign mercenaries" do not have the status of combatants under international humanitarian law.Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has threatened to strike new targets if the US supplies longer-range missiles to Ukraine.

Russia could face the death penalty.Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, are both being tried in a court in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic.Prosecutor Andrei Spivak said both "are charged with a number of crimes against civilians of the Donetsk People’s Republic" and the "maximum punishment for these crimes is the death penalty".While Aslin was heard saying he understood the accusations against him, he also said that he did not agree that he had murdered civilians while fighting for the Ukrainians in Mariupol.It is highly unlikely that the charges - including the death penalty - could have been brought without Russian leadership approval. The prosecutor said: "In the period from approximately December 2018 to April 2022 Shaun Pinner, Aiden John Mark Aslin, and [another foreign fighter] acting deliberately by a group of persons by prior agreement as part of the armed forces of Ukraine, being on the territory of Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR] in a time of war, being armed with firearms, took part in the preparation and military actions against the Armed Forces of the Donetsk People's Republic for the purpose of forcibly seizing and forcibly retaining power on the territory of DPR.” They are also accused of violating its constitution, by committing “terrorist acts, diversions, explosions, shelling from artillery, mortar, small arms of settlements, peaceful citizens, military of the Armed Forces of DPR, committing murders of the citizens of DPR, threatening of the civilians, who carried out their will during the referendum on May 11, 2014, which resulted in the forming of the state Donetsk People Republic”.

caught in Ukraine and made an example of on Russian TV.Andrew Hill, a father of four from Plymouth, appeared on Russian airwaves with his head bandaged up and his left arm in a sling. It follows shortly after another Brit, Scott Sibley, was killed in Ukraine while two others, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, were captured by Russian forces.

Ukraine and another British man has been reported missing by the Foreign Office.The men are understood to have volunteered for Ukraine's military to fight against invading Russian soldiers.Whether the pair were involved in conflict has not been confirmed by The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) nor have their identities been shared.An FCDO spokesperson said: "We can confirm that a British national has been killed in Ukraine and are supporting their family."They added: "We are aware of a British national who is missing in Ukraine and are supporting their family. We are urgently seeking further information."Last week captured British soldier Aiden Aslin spoke to his mum over a Facebook messenger video call for the first time since Russian soldiers took him as a prisoner of war.

Russian claims to have captured Ukraine’s important Black Sea port of Mariupol, a determined rearguard of Ukrainian fighters remain in the ruined city – along with some 20 British volunteers.The British fighters, sheltering from the almost-constant Russian bombardment in underground bunkers, have vowed to “save the last bullet for themselves” rather than be taken alive.Hundreds of British Army veterans and others have rushed to Ukraine's defence and a few – like Notts-born Aiden Aslin – have been captured by the Russians.As many as 20,000 civilians in Mariupol are already believed to have been killed by Russian shells and bombs, and many more may die as food supplies run out.Russian leader Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to surround the city’s industrial district and seal it off to starve out the defenders.A large force of Ukrainian defenders is holed up beneath the near-impregnable Azovstal steel works, along with an unknown number of civilians..Putin has abandoned plans to storm the factory and has ordered Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to instead "block off this industrial area so that a fly couldn't get through".Conceding that his forces couldn’t enter the steelworks without sustaining heavy losses he added: "There is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities."A British volunteer in Kyiv who had previously fought alongside the defenders of Mariupol told The Sun: “There are as many as 20 British lads still there and I fear for them.“Many are veterans of the conflict in the Donbas.

Russia has launched a formal probe following claims that Brit SAS heroes are secretly on the ground in war-torn Ukraine.

soldier captured by Russian forces in Ukraine has spoken to his mum over a Facebook messenger video call. Aiden Aslin's captors called his mother Ang Wood to expect a video call yesterday morning (Thursday, April 21) in which she was told to "press Boris Johnson for a swap deal".

Russia, with a fuming pal of Russian President Vladimir Putin saying the pair will "will have to answer in full for their actions".Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, were targeted by the deputy head of the Kremlin's powerful security council, Dmitry Medvedev.The former Russian president and prime minister said the pair would not be treated as combatants under the Geneva Conventions, meaning they would not receive the rights a prisoner of war would.Medvedev's show trials for the two men come after a failed swap deal for Putin's "prince of darkness" Viktor Medvedchuk, currently held by Ukrainian forces. The British captives have made an appeal to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson several times on multiple Russian state TV outlets.