A devastated mum whose son was taken prisoner while serving with the Ukrainian Marines said that she wants "her hero back" after seeing him paraded in front of cameras by his Russian captors. Ang Wood, the mum of Aiden Aslin, has spoken exclusively to Nottinghamshire Live's Olimpia Zagnat inside the solemn St Mary Magdalene Church in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
"I came here a few times since his capture and it is the only place that is like a shelter to me apart from my home," said the heartbroken mum. It has been just over a week now since Ms Wood had direct contact with her son.
"Two weeks ago I got a phone call from him saying 'I think we are surrendering, we have no ammunition, no food, we have no water'", the 50-year-old recalls. "And then last Tuesday, early hours, I got to speak to Aiden again. It was a very short message that he was surrendering."
