Russian President Vladimir Putin was humiliated after Russia's top battalion group refuses to fight against Ukraine; the latest setback following the death of the country's 11th troop commander.
Shaun Pinner, 48, a British Army veteran from Watford, looked distraught in the caged dock as the death sentence was read out. Aiden Aslin, 28, from Nottinghamshire, had begged for forgiveness.
Colonel Ruslan Shirin, Lieutenant-Colonel Vadim Gerasimov, and Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir Nigmatullin are the latest additions to the growing list of killed Russian colonels in Ukraine.