74. Putin's Prisoner: Life in Captivity

Battleground

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Join us for the second part of our extraordinary interview with Aiden Aslin - the British national captured by Russian forces after the siege of Mariupol. In this part of his gripping story he describes the brutality of his time in captivity, where he was violently beaten and was forced to conduct recorded video interviews for propaganda purposes, before finally, he was released as part of a prisoner swap deal. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson Twitter: @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:17.7	Hello and welcome to Battleground Ukraine's big interview with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop.
1:28.6	This week we're running the second half of our gripping interview with Aden Aslan, the Britain who was captured with survivors of his Ukrainian Marine battalion after the fall of Maripole in April 2022, tortured, forced to appear in propaganda videos and later sentenced to death, he was eventually
1:35.6	reprieved and exchanged in a prisoner swap. He's now written a book about his extraordinary
1:40.2	experiences, Putin's prisoner, and I urge you all to buy it.
1:49.0	Can you just say something, Aiden, about the relative status of the regular Russian army
1:54.4	and the DPR people? You said earlier that given a choice, your officer would rather
1:59.9	surrender to the Russians and the DPR.
2:01.8	Can you give the listeners some idea of the kind of characteristics of the DPR,
2:06.4	why you fear them more than the Russians?
2:09.2	So basically the difference between the Russian forces and the DPRs, the Russian forces obviously
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