British fighters sentenced to death by Putin's men in eastern Ukraine are appealing their sentence

The British fighters sentenced to death by Vladimir Putin’s men in eastern Ukraine are appealing their sentence, a lawyer acting for one of the Britons confirmed.

Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, face being shot by a firing squad after being convicted of attempting ‘a violent seizure of power’ in an internationally unrecognised court in the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic.

The pair were captured in the besieged city of Mariupol in April after their Ukrainian army unit surrendered…