72. Putin's Prisoner: Inside the Siege of Mariupol

Battleground

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In this episode Saul and Patrick speak to Briton Aiden Aslin, who travelled to Ukraine in 2018 and enlisted with the Ukrainian 36th Naval Infantry Brigade. He describes his time on the frontlines in the Donbas before the full scale invasion was launched in February 2022, when he was deployed to Mariupol. Aiden was then surrounded by Russian forces in the Siege of Mariupol where he describes what it was like in the vast steel works complex in the final days of the siege before his surrender to Russian troops. Join us next week for the second half of Aiden's interview when he describes his time in Russian captivity. If you have any thoughts or questions, send them to [email protected]. Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.3	This week our guest is Aidan Aslan, the Britain who was captured with survivors of his Ukrainian
1:24.9	Marine battalion by the Russians in Maripole in April 22.
1:30.3	Tortured, forced to appear in propaganda videos and later sentenced to death by a court of Russia's
1:36.3	puppet statelet, the Donets People's Republic. He was eventually reprieved and exchanged in a prisoner swap.
1:43.3	He's now written a book about his
1:44.5	extraordinary experiences, Putin's prisoner. We should also say that the interview is very long
1:50.2	and detailed, and because we don't want you to miss a minute of it, we've decided to break it
1:54.5	into two. So half will be on this week's episode and half on next.
2:04.2	Aiden, welcome to the podcast.
2:06.1	Thank you. It's good to be here.
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