Russia Broadcasts Video Of Captured 'Britons' Urging Boris Johnson To Negotiate Release
Moscow: Russian state TV broadcast a video Monday of what it described as "Britons" captured fighting for Ukraine demanding that Prime Minister Boris Johnson negotiate their release.
The two haggard-looking men identified as British nationals, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin, asked to be exchanged for Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy Ukrainian businessman close to President Vladimir Putin, who was recently arrested in the pro-Western country.
The broadcast did not specify where or by whom -- Russian forces or Moscow's separatist allies in eastern Ukraine -- the two men were being held.
The recordings were presented as interviews with journalist Andrei Rudenko, of the Russian state broadcaster, VGTRK.
