“You’re mostly digging, improving your position, building stuff, or doing what you can to pass the time, like cleaning your kit or hygiene” 🎙️ robhastings speaks with Aiden Aslin, the British man who fought for Ukraine
that PoWs must always be protected from “intimidation” and becoming objects of “public curiosity”. That has long been interpreted as an international ban on PoWs ever being filmed in captivity, where fear of torture or execution means they can feel compelled to offer false admissions of guilt or make statements against their own side to be used as propaganda by their captors.
“I was asked by Aiden Aslin to do an interview with him… I conducted that interview professionally, with integrity, decency, and in full adherence to the applicable protocols – including the Geneva Convention,” Phillips writes. “I treated Aiden humanely, and with dignity, something he himself acknowledged at the time.”
Last July, Phillips became the first British person to be sanctioned by the UK government, for producing “media content that supports and promotes actions and policies which destabilise Ukraine and undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine”. Phillips claims this move was illegal and intends to fight his case at the High Court later this year.
On 21 September, with a hood placed over his head, he was taken in a lorry to Rostov-on-Don – the Russian town now famous for beingwith his Wagner Group mercenaries last month – and placed on a Saudi Arabian private jet together with his friend Shaun Pinner, another British volunteer with the Ukrainian forces who had also been held.
“I wouldn’t change things if I could go back, because I’ve been able to see the other side of who it is we’re fighting”Aslin is grateful to officials at the Foreign Office for helping to secure his release and treating his family well while he was in captivity. He adds in his book: “Much as I don’t like Conservative prime ministers, and much as it pains me, I have to thank Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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