British fighters sentenced to death were “forced to admit to terror charges.”

According to reports, Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin contacted a newspaper several weeks ago to provide accounts that contradict their guilty pleas in a sham trial supported by Russia.

According to reports, the British fighters sentenced to death in a sham trial supported by Russia may have been duped into admitting to terror charges.

Shaun Pinner, 48, and Aiden Aslin, 28, both pleaded guilty in court in Russia-controlled Donetsk to charges of “undergoing training with the intent to carry out terrorist activities.”

According to report, both men called the paper’s news desk several weeks ago to insist that they were legally fighting for Ukraine after settling there and becoming citizens.

Meanwhile, their families are said to be worried.

Meanwhile, their families are reportedly concerned that they were duped into entering guilty pleas in the hope of receiving a reduced sentence.

According to the outlet, recordings of their phone calls to the paper show that the pair believed they were legal combatants in Ukraine and, as such, should be treated as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention.

Those accounts contrast with the men’s guilty pleas in a Kremlin-controlled kangaroo court earlier this week.

“I’m not a liberator; Mariupol is my home.”

Mr. Aslin believes Russia may be using the pair to facilitate a future prisoner exchange.

“They have agreed to do a prisoner exchange with myself and Shaun,” he said.