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Daily Mirror
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Ryan Merrifield

'I feared being shot while held captive by Russians then unlikely man saved me'

A British POW held captive by Russia for months after being caught fighting for Ukraine was rescued by an unlikely figure while waiting to be executed.

Aiden Aslin was put on 'death row' after being tried in a kangaroo court along with fellow defendants Shaun Pinner and Brahim Saadoune.

The 29-year-old, from Newark, Nottinghamshire, had enlisted with the Ukrainian 36th Naval Infantry Brigade in 2018 before being deployed to Mariupol after Vladimir Putin's invasion was launched in February 2022.

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