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In April last year British man Aiden Aslin was fighting with the Ukrainian marines, when they were cornered at the Mariupol steelworks on the frontline of the war in Ukraine. Under siege, he was part of a mass surrender after his battalion ran out of food and ammunition - but that was just the beginning of his ordeal. Aiden Aslin then spent a harrowing six months as a Russian prisoner of war, where he was beaten, tortured, forced to record propaganda videos, and sentenced to death. Aiden was eventually freed in a prisoner exchange in September last year. He's now written a book about his experience called Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine, which he co-wrote with veteran British war reporter John Sweeney. Kathryn hears his incredible tale of survival.
