British citizen Aiden Eslin. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 10 Briton Aiden Aslin, convicted in the DPR, spoke about working conditions for Ukrainian troops. «The conditions are the same. When I joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine, my salary was about 8,000 hryvnia. This is about 250 dollars. Later, the President of Ukraine raised the salaries of the military to 12,000 hryvnias. They treated me well, although many made fun of me — I’m British and don’t speak Ukrainian. I didn’t understand much, I used Google Translate, «he said in an interview with RT. He noted that he signed the contract on October 3 or 4, 2018. On June 9, in Donetsk, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. Aslin also pleaded guilty under the article «Training in order to carry out terrorist activities.» According to the laws of the DPR, the verdict can be challenged within a month. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.»
The head of the British Foreign Office called the verdict on British mercenaries in the DPR illegitimate
