Liz Truss to discuss Britons’ death sentences with Ukraine counterpart

Credit: BBC Breakfast. No pre-roll ads. Max 60 second use. The Foreign Secretary will raise the case of two Britons sentenced to death for fighting Russian forces when she speaks with her Ukrainian counterpart on Friday. Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, were convicted of taking action towards violent seizure of power at a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic. Liz Truss has called it a “sham judgment” and insisted it has “absolutely no legitimacy”.

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