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Will Stewart

Brit filmed singing Russian national anthem after being captured by Putin's forces

A British captive fighter who has been sentenced to death in a pro-Putin rogue state has been forced to sing the Russian national anthem on state TV.

Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who were fighting with the Ukrainian Army, had been defending the city of Mariupol when they were captured by Vladimir Putin ’s forces in April.

They, along with another defendant, Moroccan Brahim Saadoun, were sentenced last month after what Western politicians described as a show trial by the pro-Russian separatists in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

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