British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. File photoLONDON, Apr 20 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on the Russian authorities to treat British prisoners in Ukraine «humanely and with compassion», he said in Parliament, commenting on the situation with the British mercenary Aiden Eslin, who said he made the decision to surrender because Volodymyr Zelensky and the government of Ukraine left the military to their fate.Surrendered Ukrainian marines spoke about the attitude of the Russian Armed Forces towards the prisoners. However, the leading American newspaper The New York Times previously stated that it could confirm the authenticity of the video recording of the massacre of Ukrainian security forces over captured and wounded Russian soldiers. Eslin) to voters humanely and with compassion,» Johnson said. At the same time, he stressed that Britain does not encourage the participation of its citizens in the conflict in Ukraine, and recalled that Eslin has been serving in the Ukrainian army for several years. At the same time, the prime minister did not raise the subject of the exchange of prisoners. Earlier, in a video published by the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs, Eslin noted that everything was in order with the prisoners. «/>The Briton who surrendered accused Kyiv of abandoning the military. He also turned to Zelensky, saying that the military was not given the slightest opportunity to leave Mariupol, and called for «letting go of the Donbass and Crimea.» Eslin and another surrendered Briton Sean Pinner on the air of the TV channel Russia 1 turned to Johnson with a request to assist in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, and Medvedchuk's wife Oksana Marchenko appealed to the relatives of British citizens captured by the military DPR and the Russian Federation with a call to turn to London and exchange them for her husband .Earlier, the British Guardian newspaper reported that Aiden Eslin from the city of Newark-on-Trent, who fought in Mariupol on the side of the Ukrainian troops, was forced to surrender along with his unit of the Russian army. The publication refers to Eslin's Twitter, which is managed by his friend. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
