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After captivity to DNR and departure home: the British military returned to Ukraine - The Sun

Two and a half months after returning to the UK, 49-year-old Sean Pinner decided to go to Ukraine to his wife. However, he promised his mother that he would no longer go to fight on the front. Former British prisoners of war, 49-year-old Sean Pinner, who fought on the side of the Armed Forces and was sentenced to DNR to death, returned to Ukraine two and a half months after the exchange. About it reports the British tabloid The Sun.

According to journalists, Sean Pinner promised his 65-year-old mother, who will no longer go to fight on the front. However, he insisted on returning to his wife from Ukraine. She is a humanitarian worker and helps the victim. Sean Pinner joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2017. Before that, he served in the British army. A few days before Russia's invasion of Russia, a man was sent to an advanced post near Mariupol. "We fought with patrols at a distance of 20 meters.

My commander said we could either give up or try to get out. He immediately said that he would not seem. I was with him," Pinner said. A homemade armor was welded to the trucks. "They looked like something from" Crazy Max ". Everyone was scared to the devils," he added. On the night of April 13, Sean Pinner column left the warehouse, but Russian drones with night vision cameras shook them almost instantly. After that, the Russians began to cause air strikes, fired with phosphorus bombs and mortars.

The man helped his brothers to get to the shelter, and he went through the outskirts of the city in search of a highway, which could bring him to a safe place. At dawn, he reached the village on the outskirts of the city, dressed in civilian, hid uniforms and weapons, and went in search of food. "As soon as my head reached the top of the hill, they made a warning shot. There were digging troops and I was almost above them," Pinner said.

After that, he found himself in captivity, where the Russian military mocked him and tortured. "They pushed and beat me all over the body, in the wound, but not on the face, and it made me think that I was valuable. They didn't want the beatings to be visible. It helped me. I knew they were not going to to kill, "he said. He was transferred to two more prisons, repeatedly questioned, beaten and fed only occasionally bread. After that, he was sentenced to the DNR court to death for "terrorism".