UK Pressuring Moscow Over Two Britons Death Sentences

The UK government is pressuring Moscow over the death sentences handed to two Britons captured by Russian forces, a minister says.

“I know we are making the strongest representations possible to the Russian government,” Therese Coffey, the work and pensions secretary, tells BBC Radio 4’s PM programme.

Earlier, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss branded the sentences given to Aiden Aslin, 28, and Shaun Pinner, 48, along with Saaudun Brahim from Morocco, as a “sham judgement with absolutely no legitimacy“, adding the government was doing everything it could to support the two British men’s families.

BBC /Shakirat Sadiq