Ukrainian soldiers firing mortars. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 10British mercenary Aiden Aslin, who surrendered in Mariupol and was sentenced to death in Donetsk, said that everyone in the Ukrainian army spoke Russian. «We only spoke Russian in Nikolaev. I in general, I practically didn’t meet Ukrainian speakers there. Almost everyone who surrounded me in the service spoke Russian. Only various official papers and documents are in Ukrainian. So you can imagine the general language picture,» Aslin said in an interview with RT. «Ukraine is a multinational country. Hungarians, Poles, Russians live here. The east and south of the country are almost completely Russian-speaking — Odessa, Nikolaev…», he added. Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. The verdict can be appealed within a month. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation noted that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants and, at best, they will face a long prison term. sentence for foreign mercenaries in the DPR
