Brought to you by Penguin. 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. (c)2023
Aiden Aslin & John Sweeney (P)2023 Penguin Audio
