'Throughout our time, both men insisted that they considered Ukraine their home, that they lived here permanently and had no plans to leave'. Sky's Stuart Ramsey recalls meeting condemned Britons on the Ukraine front line 👇
Throughout our time, both men, continuously and separately insisted that they considered Ukraine their home, that they lived here permanently and had no plans to leave.
"I married a Ukrainian, I have got every much right to be here, and the guys, it's taken me a long time to integrate here, so the guys know I'm not a war tourist or war junkie," Shaun explained to me. Aidan Aslin, 28, who at the time wanted us to call him by his nickname Johnny Wood in broadcasts, was on his third tour.
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