Former soldier Shaun Pinner tells Sky News how he was 'petrified' after being captured in Ukraine and warned Vladimir Putin: 'One day, you will be found out'.
Appearing on this week's Beth Rigby Interviews, the former soldier also called for Ukraine to receive fighter jets as part of"continued support" to stop Vladimir Putin's invasion.And he warned the Russian president:"One day, you'll be found out."
Mr Pinner, from Bedfordshire, says he was serving with regular military units in Mariupol before he was detained in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic in easternRecalling how his captives gave him electric shocks, he told Rigby:"You feel like your muscles are popping out of you, your body.
"And the next day, my legs inflated very badly. The blood was kind of capillaries were leaking blood from my legs. "When I took my thermal off I was just bleeding from my leg from the electric shock, and my legs had inflated so I couldn't walk." The prisoner of war told how one man cut off his clothing to see if he had any right-wing tattoos, before stabbing him in the leg."I was screaming ... and then I had 200 volts go through me on the chair, control my leg, and I was literally standing up and he electrocuted me in there.
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