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Russia sentences captured Ukrainian fighters to death

Russia has sentenced some Ukrainian fighters it captured to death. An un-recognised court in Donetsk, a Russian-controlled territory, found the ex-fighters, who were captured in Mariupol, guilty.

One of the affected former fighters is a British, named Aiden Aslin, 28.

Aslin is from Newark in Nottinghamshire, and his family said he moved to Mykolaiv in Ukraine in 2018. He became a marine with the Ukrainian military in 2018, was engaged to marry a Ukrainian, and had made the country his home.

The former care worker had also previously fought with Kurdish armed units in Syria against so-called Islamic State.

Another affected Briton is Shaun Pinner, 48, who is originally from Bedfordshire. He is said to have moved to Ukraine four years ago to use his previous experience and training with the Ukrainian military.

 

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