Freed prisoner of war Aiden Aslin has opened up on his ordeal at the hands of Putin's army in Ukraine - and how he was beaten and left to starve after being captured. Originally from Newark, Nottinghamshire, he joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion.
In February 2022, as Russia mounted a full-scale offensive, Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at a Mariupol steelworks, after a month-long siege and running out of supplies, Aiden was part of the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops, in April 2022.
He was interrogated, tortured, stabbed, turned into a propaganda zombie, tried by a kangaroo court and then sentenced to death. He has finally returned home after being sentenced to death in the so-called Donetsk People's Republic [DPT] for "mercenary activities and committing actions aimed at seizing power and overthrowing the constitutional order of the DPR."
