British fighter Shaun Pinner has been captured by Russian troops and paraded on state TV
In the clip shared on social media, ex-British Army soldier Shaun Pinner, 48, can be seen in a blue hoodie telling the camera that he was captured by Russian troops in Mariupol.
"Captured Ukrainian soldiers testify about the atrocities of foreign mercenaries. And after the trial, they face the death penalty."Pinner who previously served in the Royal Anglian Regiment, had travelled to Ukraine to fight as a "contract soldier".He is the second British fighter to be captured in Mariupol after Aiden Aslin was detained earlier this week.
They had run out of food and ammunition as they tried to fight off forces in the devastated city of Mariupol, in the south of the country. Mariupol has been a key objective for Russia since the start of its invasion on February 24. Capturing the city would allow Moscow to establish a land corridor to Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014 and deprive Ukraine of a major port and prized industrial assets.
He said the Russians deployed mobile cremation equipment to Mariupol to methodically dispose of the victims' bodies in order to hide the evidence of the massacre and prevent international organisations from documenting "the horror the Russian army is responsible for".
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