aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.t is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro—russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i'm now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i'm sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, i'm mentally better than i was, especially, like, just coming out of captivity. erm, but as most people can probably observe, like, i still have, like, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. i am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 could become so fixated on fighting in other people's wars. because that's what happened. pretty much, erm, and i think...i think, like, the important thing to realise is...is that, like, my childhood, like, when i was growing up

aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.ro—russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or i'm now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i'm sure everyone would remember the images.

aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars?

aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you.

aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. held by the pro—russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i'm now a lot bigger compared to

my guest today is a young british man, aiden aslin, who has a remarkable story.ks to a prisoner swap. but why did he risk everything in someone else�*s war?