Thursday 16 June 2022 09:34 AM Russian MP warns 'b******s' Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner will be executed with ... trends now
The two British volunteer fighters who surrendered to Russian forces will be executed with British guns and British bullets, a prominent Moscow MP has claimed.
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, along with a Moroccan Sadun Brahim, 21 will meet the fate that one Kremlin TV loyalist called a 'mockery', according to nationalist MP Aleksey Zhuravlyov, deputy chairman of the Russian parliament's defence committee.
The bullets will then be sent to the families of the executed men who will be 'told to buy the bullets in roubles', Zhuravlyov went on to claim.
They are to appeal against their death penalty sentences by firing squad after receiving written copies of their verdicts.
They were convicted in a sham trial unrecognised internationally held in the Donetsk People's Republic [DPR], a Kremlin puppet state.
The three foreign fighters all surrendered in the besieged and devastated port city of Mariupol last month when the last of the Ukrainian forces hold up in the sprawling Azovstal steel plant finally laid down their arms.
Nationalist MP Aleksey Zhuravlyov has claimed that the DPR intends to execute Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin with British weapons and bullets
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, surrendered in the besieged and devastated port city of Mariupol last month when the last of the Ukrainian forces hold up in the sprawling Azovstal steel plant finally laid down their arms.
In a TV rant on Rossiya 1 state TV, Zhuravlyov said 'all those b******s who came here from Britain must be eliminated'
Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, (pictured) were sentenced to death by firing squad last week by a rogue court in the 'Donetsk People's Republic',
The kangaroo court accused them of being mercenaries, despite being regular soldiers in the Ukrainian army (Pictured: Aiden Aslin serving in the British army)
Another British detainee Andrew Hill, 35, a father of four from Plymouth, has also been warned to expect the death penalty when his verdict is handed down.
Britain is seeking clemency and their release, possibly in a prisoner swap, but now Zhuravlyov told Rossiya 1 state TV that the DPR intends to execute them with British weapons and bullets.
Then their relatives will be told to buy the bullets, and pay for them in roubles - the Russian currency.
'I like the way the DPR is performing their international obligations,' Zhuravlyov said.
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