April 18, 2022 2:50 p.m
The two appeared in a video broadcast on Moscow television, in which they exchanged views with oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, appealing to Prime Minister Johnson to be released
The Appeal on TV
The two Britons, identified as Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, have been defined by Russian authorities as “mercenaries” captured during fighting in Ukraine. “Mr Boris Johnson says Pinner in a video broadcast by the 60 Minutes program of the state television channel Rossiya 1 I ask that I and Aiden Aslin be exchanged for Mr Medvedchuk. Of course, I would greatly appreciate your help in this matter estimate.”
Medvedchuk’s film on Ukrainian television
The video does not specify whether the two Britons are prisoners of Russian or proRussian separatists in Donbass. Almost simultaneously, Ukrainian television broadcast a video of less than 30 seconds in which Medvedchuk appealed to Putin and Zelenskyy, proposing to be released in exchange for safe conduct so that Ukrainian forces besieged in Mariupol and residents could leave the city.
Medvedchuk was arrested on Tuesday during a special operation by the Ukrainian security services. The 67yearold oligarch escaped from house arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. He faces a sentence of between 15 years and life in prison for high treason and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization for brokering coal purchases for the Russianbacked breakaway Donetsk Republic in eastern Ukraine.
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