Shaun Pinner: Last News

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.

Russia while fighting for Ukraine, told Vladimir Putin's torturers to "f*** off" after they sent sick videos of her son. Aiden, 28, along with Shaun Pinner, 48, John Harding, 59, Dylan Healy, 22, and Andrew Hill, 35, arrived in the UK on Thursday (September 22) following a prisoner swap brokered by ex-Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich.Russian forces captured Aiden, from Newark in Nottinghamshire, back in April when he was fighting as a Ukrainian Marine.

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.

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

Russian invasion of Ukraine, has been shown seemingly being forced to sing the tune in another flagrant breach of the Geneva Conventions' rules on treatment of prisoners of war. In the disturbing clip which the Daily Star has chosen not to show, Aiden appears to be thin and pale but otherwise uninjured – despite the presence of a vicious-looking club on the table in front of him.A burly Russian jailer stands next to the Nottinghamshire 28-year-old as he belts out the anthem.READ MORE: Brit who left girlfriend for blonde Ukrainian refugee 'wants to pummel senile Putin'Former care worker Aiden was captured by Russian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol in April.

Ukraine - including one who was helping a woman and two children flee shelling. Dylan Healy, 22, and Andrew Hill, 35, face trial in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), a pro-Putin rogue state in eastern Ukraine recognised only by Russia and Syria.

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.

Russian troops in Ukraine are facing the death penalty, as officials issue an update. Shaun Pinner, 48, and Andrew Hill, 35, could be sentenced to capital punishment after they were captured in Ukraine.The Prosecutor General's Office of the Donetsk People's Republic confirmed their names alongside Moroccan citizen Sadun Brahim.

Vladimir Putin looks set to use the Russian public holiday - marking the country's victory over Nazi Germany and the end of WW2 in Europe - to send a warning to the West by showing off the thermonuclear RS-24 Yars ballistic missile.Weighing 49.6 tonnes, the powerful missile is a weapon of mass destruction that experts believe can carry up to 10 warheads, and is capable of striking London or New York within minutes by travelling at a speed of 24,500km/hr. The nuclear missile was driven past rows of armed guards on a 16-wheeler vehicle on Saturday's rehearsal for the actual Victory Day parade on Monday, followed closely by several Iskander-M missile launchers.

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”.

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.

captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, is reportedly moving to the UK to be with the rest of his family.Aiden was forced to surrender along with the rest of the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade unit when they ran out of ammunition and food after being cut off the besieged city of Mariupol.In a harrowing Russian propaganda video, Aiden looking drained and had a nasty-looking gash on his forehead as was quizzed about his combat service.Aiden's father Andy Wood said: “It looks to me that Aiden is being made to say things under duress. He's being used for propaganda.

Russian forces appeared on Russian state TV on Monday and asked to be exchanged for a pro-Russian politician who is being held by the Ukrainian authorities. It was unclear how freely the two men - Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin - were able to talk.

Vladimir Putin's forces before being paraded on Russian TV. Ex-British Army soldier Shaun Pinner, 48, was serving as a 'contract soldier' with Ukrainian forces in Russian-occupied Mariupol as the area has been decimated by shelling.He claims to have been there for five to six weeks before appearing on the broadcast with no visible wounds, giving information about his service.He told the journalist Andrey Rudenko on the military TV channel: "I am Shaun Pinner.