Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who had joined the Ukrainian Army, were captured by Moscow’s forces near Mariupol in April and later sentence to death in an unrecognised court.
Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of Russia’s lapdog parliament, said the US should think twice before using seized money to rebuild Ukraine, saying: ‘We also have something to get back.’
A Russian ice hockey player poised for a move to the NHL has been detained on ‘draft dodger’ charges. Ivan Fedotov, 25, was hauled to an enlistment office and could be sent to fight in Ukraine
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said Ukrainian troops had destroyed a Russian Pantsir anti-aircraft system in the strike on the strategic Snake Island.
Aslin, 28, was captured alongside fellow Brit Shaun Pinner by Russian forces while fighting as part of the Ukrainian army in Mariupol last month and the pair were handed a death sentence
Christopher Steele, who operated in Russia as an MI6 agent, said Putin, 69, is taking regular breaks to receive medical treatments and that there was ‘no clear political leadership’ in Moscow.