Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018 compelled to defend his adopted homeland from
the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022 as Russia mounted a full-scale
offensive Aiden and his unit were stationed at the frontline at Mariupol. Pinned down at a
Mariupol steelworks after a month-long siege and running out of supplies Aiden was part of
the mass surrender of over a thousand Ukrainian troops in April 2022. Then his real ordeal
began. Singled out for his British passport Aiden was interrogated tortured stabbed turned
into a propaganda zombie tried by a kangaroo court and then sentenced to death. A victim of a
catalogue of abuses of international law Aiden struggled to cling on to any hope of survival.
Certain that he was going to be executed he was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange and
permitted to return home. In Putin's Prisoner Aiden will tell the full harrowing story of his
time fighting in Putin's war of his six months in Russian captivity and of his hardened
resolve to defend the freedoms of the people of Ukraine.
