YouTube says it has removed a hostage video of a Nottinghamshire man who had been captured in Ukraine and forced in front of cameras by his Russian captors. Aiden Aslin's mum, Ang Wood, recently spoke to Nottinghamshire Live in Newark of her distress, saying she wanted her "hero back".
Mr Aslin had been fighting with his unit, having left Newark to join the Ukrainian Marines in 2018, in the besieged south-eastern city of Mariupol. Russia claimed more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops from the Ukrainian 36th Marine Brigade that surrendered in Mariupol, which now sits in ruins.
A 45-minute film was released online and posted on YouTube, during which he was questioned by Graham William Phillips, a man believed to be from Nottingham who has previously worked for the Kremlin-backed television channel RT. He has been accused of spreading Moscow’s propaganda over an MP's claims the video with Mr Aslin could amount to a war crime.