The Russian national anthem was heard being sung in a prison cell by a British man who is being executed by firing squad in eastern Ukraine.
In a 140-second video uploaded online by the Kremlin-backed RT news station, Aiden Aslin, 28, is shown standing and singing the State Anthem of the Russian Federation while sporting unshaven hair and unkempt clothing.
John Dougan, a former police officer from the United States, is standing next to him while he sings.
Dougan, a well-known Russian propagandist in Ukraine, exclaims, “Amazing,” after he is through.
Days after news broke that another British detainee, Paul Urey, had passed away while in custody, Mr. Aslin, of Newark, Nottinghamshire, was seen in video.
Despite the possibility that it was recorded under duress, the video offers some proof that Mr. Aslin is still alive, in contrast to Mr. Urey, 45, who was taken by pro-Russian militants while attempting to save a woman near to Donetsk.
They let him die there, and I want to know why they allowed it, his mother Linda stated last week.
Shaun Pinner, a 48-year-old British man, and Mr. Aslin were both apprehended in June and imprisoned by pro-Moscow rebels.
After moving to Ukraine in 2016, both individuals relocated in Mariupol in the country’s east and enlisted in the Ukrainian army as marines.
The two were convicted of being mercenaries despite their occupations as professional soldiers and received death sentences. The video revealed:
Three people were killed and at least 15 injured in a Russian missile strike in the city of Dnipro; Putin’s forces were using Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Zaporizhzhia as a weapons depot; the Ukrainian government announced that they have now positively identified all 23 victims of the Vinnytsia missile strike on Thursday, including 4-year-old Liza Dmytrysyna who died in her stroller.
Around 500 Russian soldiers are stationed at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which is used to store weapons such as missile systems, claims the Ukrainian nuclear energy agency Energoatom.
‘The invaders brought their apparatus there, including missile systems, from which they already shelled the other side of the River Dnipro,’ said one officer, adding that the situation was ‘very hot’.
Although it is currently run by Ukrainian employees, the nuclear plant in southeast Ukraine has been under Russian control from the first days of the conflict.
In the meantime, three people were killed when Russian rockets struck homes in Chuhuiv, a town close to Kharkiv in northern Ukraine.
Russian airstrikes have increased, including one on the town of Vinnytsia, as Russia’s ground offensive in the east has slowed.
The great-aunt of the tragedy Liza Dmytrysyna stated yesterday that she is awaiting word on the condition of the child’s mother Iryna.
She was reaching for her daughter while Liza was already dead, according to Tetiana Dmytrysyna.
The mother’s most priceless possession was taken from her.
Liza, whose mother ran a blog where she informed readers on raising a kid with Down syndrome, has become the most recent symbol of the misery of her country after having her bloody and burned pram featured in the media.