![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/brit-captured-by-russians-beaten-stabbed-and-left-to-starve-over-five-months-of-torture/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_JS263489523.jpg&description=During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten "black and blue", stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner The British-born Ukrainian marine who fought against the Russians and then was captured by them has recalled the horror of being imprisoned. During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten "black and blue", stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner. He was captured with fellow Brit Shaun Pinner in the besieged city of Mariupol after their unit was forced to surrender when they ran out of food and ammunition. The men were told to expect execution by firing squad after pleading guilty in a sham judgement to mercenary and terrorist activities. But they were eventually released alongside five other international prisoners after the intervention of Saudi Arabia. The 28-year-old recalled the first day they were captured, when, for 11 hours, they were forced "on pain of being beaten, to stand with our head against a wall, our hands held behind our backs, or else." He writes in the MailOnline: "It's painful enough for five minutes. For eleven hours it's torture. We are given no food, no water. And the only toilets we can use are two buckets. Very soon, the place stinks to high heaven." Prior to Ukraine, the Nottinghamshire man was fighting against Islamic State in Syria, but nothing could have prepared him for the brutality of being captured by Russians: "The effect of this was far more powerful than I could ever have imagined." Aiden recalled the moment his captors realised where he was from which resulted in instantly being punched "square on the nose." He continued: "After realising I was British and socking me in the face, he really started to lay into me, jabs to my face and body before a senior officer shouted at him to cut it out. The beating stopped but [he] remained on a mission to give me a horrible time." Photos released during A){kind=link}
During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten “black and blue”, stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner
The British-born Ukrainian marine who fought against the Russians and then was captured by them has recalled the horror of being imprisoned.
During more than five months as a prisoner of war, Aiden Aslin was beaten “black and blue”, stabbed, threatened with execution and witnessed the killing of another prisoner.
He was captured with fellow Brit Shaun Pinner in the besieged city of Mariupol after their unit was forced to surrender when they ran out of food and ammunition.
The men were told to expect execution by firing squad after pleading guilty in a sham judgement to mercenary and terrorist activities. But they were eventually released alongside five other international prisoners after the intervention of Saudi Arabia.