Aiden Aslin, from Newark, joined the Ukrainian Marines in 2018, but has told friends and family that he and his comrades can no longer stand it as the Russians gradually tighten their grip on the southern port city. Ashlyn’s mother, Ang Wood, told the BBC that her son’s unit had “fought a hell of a battle” but had to call her one day because “they had no weapons”. In an interview, she called on the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, to find a way to “oust Putin.” Russian troops have been besieging the city in the Sea of Azov since early March. The territory controlled by the Ukrainian forces has gradually shrunk in some central areas. Ashlin tweeted the name Cossackgundi, though increasingly incapable of doing so, leaving the management of the account in the hands of a friend who would continue to comment on the war under his username. Aslin fought for the Syrian Kurdish YPG against the Islamic State between 2015 and 2017 before moving to Ukraine. A friend, Brennan Phillips, told Ashlin “she can not get out; she can not resist” and added: “I’m sure if they had a bullet left they would have fired it.” In a video shot in February before the war, Ashlin said he “initially wanted to be a cop” but decided to join the fight against Islamic State so that he would not “sit here and complain about everything, but do something. for this”. , and that he recognized that a war with Russia could mean “many of us will die, we will be seriously injured.” In a Facebook post on Monday, the last Ukrainian soldiers defending Mariupol said they had “run out of ammunition” and were expected to be killed or captured very soon. “We were bombed by planes and artillery and tanks. We did everything possible and impossible. “But every resource has the potential to be depleted,” said the 36th Brigade.
