Starved, stabbed & tortured: British Army veteran on horror of Russian captivity
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- čas přidán 6. 11. 2023
- A British Army veteran who went to Ukraine to fight in its war with Russia has told BFBS' Sitrep podcast he counts himself lucky to have survived fighting in the war, "let alone" being held captive by Russian troops.
Shaun Pinner was living in Ukraine and had nearly completed his three-year contract with the Ukrainian armed forces when Russia illegally invaded the country.
Choosing to stay and fight alongside his Ukrainian comrades, Mr Pinner was involved in the fierce fighting in Mariupol.
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Sorry to hear this. Glad you lived to tell. I wish you a full and total recovery 🙏🏻 ❤
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Deep respect to Shaun for the bravery and strength to speak about this. I hope they receive the greatest amount of love, care, and support this earth can offer ❤
@taraskywalker453
No respect for Shaun.
He was a mercenary in the Ukranian armed forces long before 2022.
At the time he joined these armed forces, they were oppressing the Russian speaking Ukranians in the East of the country denying them the right to use their own language or democratically determine their own future.
@@mkhbell I heard Shaun used to go around stealing the shoes of Russian people in the East regularly.
The honourable thing for him to do was stand silently and salute whilst his home and community were destroyed. Justice ain't free.
@@BadgerUKvideo
I cannot comment on the shoe story.
However it is a fact that he left his home country, traveled across multiple peaceful countries to go and fight in the Ukrainian civil war supporting the fascist Ukrainian government which was oppressing it's own Russian speaking citizens.
@@mkhbell If your wife's home, and yours by extension, was being attacked what would you do?
@@BadgerUKvideo
He was not married when he went to Ukraine.
The Ukrainian military at the time that he joined was not defending innocent women's homes.
the Ukrainian military was actively attacking Russian speaking Ukrainians in the East whom had through a democratic process decided that they wanted to be independent and not part of Ukraine.
Therefore your suggestion that he went there to defend his wife's home is false.
He went to Ukraine to attack Russian speaking Ukrainians and deny them their right to democratically determine their own future.
This is a soldier who genuinely deserves to be thanked for his sacrifice.
Who by?
@@meme4one by the people Russia was actually looking for when they searched for tattoos.
Calling this mercenary a soldier is like calling a prostitute an escort.
Nobody deserves to be thanked for fighting as a mercenary to support a Fascist Regime oppressing it's own citizens.
We’re surprised the Russians would do this??? 😭 I’m not, unfortunately :(
We're not.
for good reason, he has not a single reason to go fight for another country but his own!@@InvictusVirtus
Paid Russian trolls spotted! @@InvictusVirtus
How do the Ukrainians treat Russian prisoners of war? I'm sure the nazi battalion are very gentle and caring.
"volunteer"?@@InvictusVirtus
Respect! Thanks for telling your story and recording it for posterity. Justice will be served on those responsible. I hope you can wash the pain away, look at the sun rising, and enjoy the rest of your life.
I'm so happy he's safe now! This is a horrific story.
God save the King.
Nothing to do with the King, it's not our war.
What a legend glad your back home.
What a story, thanks for sharing.
My step father during ww2 was in a Russian camp and also Auschwitz. He escaped from both which is a story. He was in the Polish underground. He always said the Russians were worse. Of course he wasn't a Jew.
Quakers relief worker William Ravenscroft reported that Warth Mills concentration camp in northern England was worse than any camp he had visited in Germany....
Jewish virtual library says conditions were good in Bergen Belsen until the final stages of the war..after allies bombed all infrastructure
@@cyberhermit1222Exactly. I'm guessing you also question the lie too?
Sounds very similar to the prolonged torture of Roger Bushell (Big X) by the Gestapo in WWII.
He learned to sleep with his fist in his stomach, to cope with the pain of starvation.
No it actually sounds like pitesti prison where they beat people with an oak table leg and starved them within an inch of their life while psychic driving the manifesto into their head aka propaganda, all which they did to him, and the goal was to make Christians renounce their faith, blame nazis for being there. But your guy went hungry poor big x. You know how many millions of Germans starved to death after your occupation?
Boomers love their WW2 propaganda even as they become a minority in their own country... The book Barbed-wire University documents how well Germans treated British POWs....in German camps POWs could even enroll in university courses or take up bee keeping or go for a swim. One camp even had a golf course.
Looking well Shaun!
What a story…….the main thing is that you are alive..! ❤
Wow you look so healthy now
He doesn't look very tortured. He is not missing a single tooth....no scars...
respect for shaun i just hope this video does not cause any problems for his comrades that are still held by the russians
Sorry, that you went through that😢
He didn't have to be there.
This how I feel in my mental health hospital at Berrywood in Northampton
I see a good movie from this man’s amazing journey. The Russians…
300 years of the Csars, 70 years of the Sovs, 20 years of Vladdy, I don't think much has changed. As for war fighting the Russians have always been notoriously brutal. Just saying.
Today I get to live 1:31 through the wildly free country get to live through.
did you go there as a volunteer, if so dont complain
He a mercenary
Pitesti prison all over again, trauma and privation.
You are a Mercenary. Lucky they let you live.
Glad i'm not alone in thinking this. What a change from the treatment that the lad who went to fight Isis got ....
Exactly
There's something very wrong with Russia
Charming lot the Russians are.
At what point did you realise you had been used?
Wait, did roman pay to release and fly them back?
Thankfully he didn't get the McNab treatment
But he did!
What you mean running away from his friends and making a story up to sell books???
@@garagenigelmate don’t ruin the story for me…..
You know now how bad they are, being punished by an enemy.
We had a prisoner for 6.5 years in Vietnam, and he came back and later became a Senator from Arizona, Sen.. John McCain and later Trump made fun of our veterans and McCain and I wonder if Trump could stand up to the treatment that you did? I wonder how you feel about politicians that don't try to appreciate the sacrifice that people that fight and often suffer and even die to protect their country, and their allies. What do you think?
Should a country have a President that doesn't respect the men and women of the Armed Forces?
How can he be a President then? Or Commander in Chief? Seems like it's an absolute prerequisite that kind of sacrifice be valued highly. Or maybe I am just stupid?
I think America's next President should have been a soldier or a sailor, at least for one enlistment, just to know how it is in the armed forces. Not just a clean cut lawyer or some college educated bloke.
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A fool.
Maybe one shouldn’t become a mercenary in another nation’s war.
Plenty of Americans joined the British or Canadian forces before Pearl Harbour. The Ghurkas continued to be part of the British Army, as do a good number of Tongans. Do you say the same about them?
They had both lived in Ukraine for many years, they didn't move their to join the army, they spoke the language and were married to Ukrainians.
@@davedavids57
As a British citizen he chose to move to Ukraine in 2018 while the country was already at war.
He chose to be employed as a mercenary in the Ukranian armed forces who were at the time already oppressing their own Russian speaking citizens in the East.
@@mkhbell I wonder if he, and the rest like him, actually knew what the Ukrainian army had been guilty of since 2014. Maybe just blindly believed the Western media. Just a fool protecting the guilty. No sympathy.
@@mkhbell If you join a military, as a citizen of that country, with a standard military contract you can't be a mercenary. The term mercenary has a definition. Typically it's people who fight just for money. If you fight for an ideology your not a mercenary (that's why the international legions of the waffen ss in world war two aren't considered mercenaries). If you fight for a country you have citizenship of your not a mercenary. If you could make better money fighting someone else, your not a mercenary. Also according to the Russian Government there isn't a war in Ukraine and the conflict didn't involve another country until 2022. Until then it was an internal anti terrorist operation.
Which Army don't do the same?
Only the rapist cowardly Russians and other Terrorist states.
uk, us, most civilised nations...
torture is not common
@@NiSiochainGanSaoirse
Guantanamo Base!!!
Do you know about it?
@@someutubchannel69That's got nothing to do with war fighting or soldiers on the ground!
@@garagenigel
Ok. Thanks
In the end, he went off to fight someone else's war. It was his choice. I'm an veteran but I won't go and fight for someone else. Why did he go? Money maybe? Not much sympathy from me, same as when journalists get hurt in a war zone, they don't have to be there.
I'm a vet but would never fight for another country, what amazes me is why are these people not fighting for the UK that is in big trouble being invaded by an army organised by our government
@frankprice6583 driven by money I reckon. And who would he fight in the UK? We're not allowed to attack the invaders.
I thought we had signed up to the non-mercenary treaty to stop clowns like this from going abroad to fight?
They both had lived in Ukraine many years before the war, they joined the Ukrainian army before the war, they have Ukrainian nationality and are married to Ukrainians.
You should never have gone there. Putin will prevail.
They moved to Ukraine many years before the war. They are Ukrainian citizens, married to Ukrainians, who joined the Ukrainian marines many years prior to the invasion.
@@davedavids57
He joined the Ukrainian armed forces in 2018, this is after the war had started in 2014.
At this time the Ukranian government was using their armed forces to oppress their own Russian speaking citizens in the East denying them the right to use their own language and the right to democratically determine their own future.
He was a British citizen who choose to be employed as a mercenary in the Ukranian armed forces which were oppressing their own citizens at the time of his employment.
@@mkhbell The definition of mercenary is a foreign soldier who joins a foreign army for financial gain. He was Ukrainian, he had a military contract (he got standard Ukrainian army pay). Also if you join a foreign army for ideological reasons you can't be a mercenary. That's why say the International legion in the Spanish Civil war or the international legions of the waffen SS in world war two aren't regarded as mercenaries. If you believe in the cause your fighting for (whatever it is) you can't be a mercenary. Simples.
@@davedavids57
You need to check your facts.
In an interview with Sky News in January 2022, Pinner said that after learning that foreigners can serve in the Ukrainian army with a prospect of citizenship or residency permit, he moved to Ukraine.
This means that he moved to Ukraine and joined the Ukranian armed forces as a British citizen.
By your definition he was a foreign soldier serving in foreign armed forces which makes him a mercenary.
@@davedavids57
He was a British citizen at the time of joining the Ukranian military.
By his own account he went to Ukraine because he was not happy with his job and not for ideological reasons.
By your own definition he was a mercenary.
Guys a mercenary, mercenaries have no rights or protections. He also fought for a horrible regime who have literaral nazis in their army.
Is that your unbiased opinion ?
facts
@@meenos3
No, he’s a foreign volunteer, like those who fought for their principles and against fascism in the Spanish civil war
@@rosstieman3494 well said
@@rosstieman3494
No
He is a mercenary fighting to support the fascist Ukrainian government that will not allow its own people the right to democratically determine their own future.
roman should never been forced to surrender chelsea. that was a tragedy.
He's bossom buddies with an enemy of our country are you insane????? It's a war not a football match 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@contingency9 not our enemy. not our conflict
@@romeisfallingagain Botnik
@@romeisfallingagain
Ukraine Gave up its Nukes so WE PLEDGED TO PROTECT THEIR BORDERS
It is our conflict
either Ukraine wins
or YOU will be carrying a rifle in Poland in 5 years
@@romeisfallingagain😂😂
Lucky to be alive muppet shouldn’t become a mercenary and fight in another country’s war now he’s probably going to write a shty book about being captured
to be fair, you shouldnt have been there. not surprising they treated you badly.
Ignore this person above.
He was living in Ukraine at the time. They invaded unlawfully. There’s only one side that shouldn’t have been there, Russia
You can’t seriously be this delusional…
@@cjjk9142unlawfully or illegally? when russia put its boots down in ukraine and gave them the warning, ukraine should have listened. why do you support a corrupted nation???
@@cjjk9142 not an excuse. he holds a british passport does he not???
He is lying, this is not WW2 era and Russia is not Nazi.
You must be looking at the mirror when you wrote that. The Nazi’s would be embarrassed to behave like Russia….. even they held back from using chemical weapons….. Russia and its shills are without shame
Amusingly he didn't say anything about Russia being Nazis, so it's curious you feel the need to defend them on that
Stupid Russian bot is confused
Botnik
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Play stupid games win stupid prizes. I understand wanting to go over and help but its not our war to fight you shouldnt have been there in the first place
it's good to help people who are in trouble. Plus he was living there and it was his home. He married a Ukrainian and lived in Mariupol. He was fighting for his home.