‘Breach of rights’ Boris Johnson rages at Putin parading UK hostages captured in Ukraine

Boris Johnson: UK hostages should not be paraded

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The Prime Minister has lashed out at the Russian treatment of two captured British men Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48 in Ukraine. Boris Johnson slammed the Russian military for treating the two prisoners as hostages after they were captured by the Russian military during the battle for the city of Mariupol. 

Mr Johnson told TalkTV: “Aiden and other UK nationals who have been fighting for the Ukrainian Armed Forces who get captured are not hostages, they’re not there to be swapped, you know, as though they were terrorists or whatever.

“They are prisoners of war and they are therefore entitled to rights under the Geneva Convention.

“They should not under the laws of war be paraded in front of the cameras. 

“They should not be made to give hostage videos that is a breach of their rights as prisoners of war.”

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