The Latest Breaking News from Shaun Pinner

Boris Johnson has ordered ministers to do ‘everything in their power’ to secure the release of Shaun Pinner and fellow Briton Aiden Aslin.

Reports say Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin contacted a newspaper several weeks ago to offer accounts that conflict with their guilty pleas in a Russia-backed sham trial

Ukraine ‘almost out of ammunition’; death sentences at a show trial; the battle for Sievierodonetsk

Up to 200 Ukrainian soldiers are dying every day in the war with Russia, and only more and more advanced Western weaponry will reduce the casualties, turn back the Russian offensive and force Moscow to the negotiating table, an adviser to Ukraine’s president said. Mykhailo Podolyak told the BBC in…

The legal frameworks for war that the world has tried to uphold since 1945 have never been at such risk, says barrister Sadakat Kadri

Putin has a favour to ask that could be tied to the case of two men jailed in Donetsk, says Kim Sengupta

UN says the men were reported to be Ukrainian soldiers and ‘such trials against prisoners of war amount to a war crime’.

Two British soldiers captured by Russian forces while fighting for Ukraine have been sentenced to death by pro-Moscow rebels, provoking condemnation from ministers and the Ukrainian government.

Russia-backed court sentenced foreigners to death by firing squad for ‘terrorist activity’ after fighting for Ukraine.

Ukraine’s president hailed Great Britain as a ‘friend’ for the continued support his country has received

Why are Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner being treated as criminals, and what can ministers do to help them?