A BRIT captured by Russians in Ukraine was compelled to document his “final phrases” to his daughter in a chilling propaganda video as he pleaded with Boris Johnson for assist.
John Harding, initially from Sunderland, is being held by pro-Russian separatists within the self-proclaimed Donetsk Folks’s Republic, it’s understood.
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The clip, shared on Telegram, reveals Harding – who’s in his fifties – being interviewed by a Russian TV presenter.
Interesting to the PM for have him, he says he may face the demise penalty.
He mentioned: “I might say to Boris Johnson, when you might help, when you can affect President Zelensky, when you can affect the president of the DPR, or when you can affect President Putin, then please do.
“Folks’s lives are relying on this. So when you can, please assist.”
The presenter – Putin stooge Marina Kim – then pressed Harding to disclose what his final phrases to be his daughter.
She requested: “Possibly it might be like your final phrases – what would you inform (your daughter)?”.
He replied: “Clearly, I might inform her I want I’d spent extra time together with her.”
Kim then requested if he would hell his daughter he cherished her, to which he mentioned: “After all. All fathers love their daughters.”
It’s understood Harding was caught by Russians as he defended the Azovstal steelworks in embattled Mariupol with Ukrainian items as a part of the Azov regiment.
They have been compelled to give up after relentless bombardment from Putin’s troops.
Harding instructed friends he was a part of the Ukrainian Nationwide Guard, having began preventing within the Donbas area in japanese Ukraine since 2018.
The Overseas Workplace has mentioned it’s involved by his detention.
Two different British males, Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, who have been additionally captured in Mariupol, have been sentenced to demise by a Russian proxy court docket within the DPR.
Each they and Mr Harding had moved to Ukraine across the identical time and made the nation their dwelling.
The DPR court docket is just not internationally recognised. Overseas Secretary Liz Truss has referred to as the demise sentences a “sham judgement with completely no legitimacy”.
The UK authorities has mentioned they need to be handled as prisoners of struggle underneath the legal guidelines specified by the Geneva Conventions.
It comes as two different Brits – Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner – additionally face the demise sentence.
‘MURDERERS’
Putin’s separatist warlords in japanese Ukraine have mentioned they’re “making ready a spot for the execution” of the pair.
Hero fighters Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48 – each serving members of Ukraine’s military – have been sentenced to demise by a kangaroo court docket after reportedly being tricked to confess they’re terrorists.
The pair have been captured after working out of ammo in the course of the brutal siege of Mariupol and convicted of being unlawful mercenaries in a sham trial by Putin’s proxies within the occupied Donetsk area.
Separatist forces in japanese Ukraine have now accelerated plans to execute the 2 Brits.
A chilling assertion from officers within the Donetsk area reportedly mentioned they have been “making ready a spot for his or her execution” – which might be by firing squad and with none prior warning.
The date of their executions won’t be launched prematurely.
A surprising video confirmed Aslin being compelled to sing the Russian nationwide anthem for state TV.
The condemned care employee was made to offer a rendition in deeply disturbing footage.
In the meantime, Brit assist employee Paul Uley from Manchester, died final Sunday whereas being held hostage by pro-Putin separatists after he was captured with fellow Brit Dylan Healey on a mercy mission to rescue civilians.
The 45-year-old’s distraught mum has slammed Putin’s “f***ing murderers” for letting him die in captivity.
He was reportedly charged with “mercenary actions” by officers within the Donetsk Folks’s Republic’s in japanese Ukraine after Moscow-backed separatists insisted he was a “skilled” soldier.
Putin stooge Daria Morozova claimed the Brit died on July 10 “resulting from sickness and stress”.
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