British captive Aiden Aslin remembers horrors of Russia captivity
British prisoner of battle Aiden Aislin who endured an horrific ordeal by the hands of Putin’s military in Ukraine has recalled the brutal horrors inside Russian captivity.
The Ukranian volunteer has described how captures troopers have been compelled to lean towards the wall, arms tied behind their backs, in excruciating ache.
Aislin and his fellow POWs had no entry to meals or water, and the one sanitary amenities have been two buckets. He remembers being singled out for abuse by his captors for having a British nationality and being compelled to endure a mock execution.
In Putin’s Prisoner: My Time As A Prisoner Of War In Ukraine, Mr Aislin remembers: “On the other side of the railway bridge we are greeted, in a manner of speaking, by an armed Russian soldier wearing a green balaclava. Two more Russians are covering him.
“I go searching for the International Red Cross however I do not see them. I’m patted down by a soldier within the uniform of the Russian inside ministry troops. Once they’ve checked that we’ve no weapons on us, the abuse begins.
“It’s just verbal, to begin with. They call us ‘pederas’ or ‘peda’, Russian slang for paedophile or pederast. They tell us to ‘f*****g move it’ and we get on a bus. What’s so strange is that there are only a few of them.
“OK, they’re armed, however we outnumber them so we might conceivably seize the bus. But everyone knows our traces are too distant. If we make a run for it, we’ll be canine meat quickly sufficient.”
The British fighter, who had previous combat experience in Syria, shared details of the Russian guards’ attempts to demean the prisoners by compelling them to sing the Russian national anthem and express their support for Vladimir Putin.
Almost every day, he experienced being forcefully taken out of his confinement and placed in front of a camera. During these interrogations, the Russians aimed to exploit Mr. Aslin for propaganda purposes, repeatedly asking him to renounce his support for Ukraine.
Additionally, he noted that members of the Azov Regiment, who were captured later during the Russian siege in Mariupol, endured even more severe beatings compared to the other prisoners, describing the treatment as horrific.
Mr Aslin’s book was serialised on Mail Online and said: “11 hours we’re compelled, on ache of being overwhelmed, to face with our head towards a wall, our arms held behind our backs, or else. It’s painful sufficient for 5 minutes. For 11 hours it is torture. We are given no meals, no water. And the one bogs we are able to use are two buckets. Very quickly, the place stinks to excessive heaven.
“There’s a constant commotion, shouting, people being called to the front to show their documents.”
He talks about being “punched in the nose” by a guard who asks the place he is from.
He adde he’ll “never forget the thump, thump, thump of the truncheon against the helpless soldier in the next cell.”.
“To hear someone being murdered in the next cell, and to be utterly helpless to prevent it, well, I would not wish that on my worst enemy. That killing was perhaps the lowest point of my time in captivity,” he added.