Ben Stimson and Aiden Minnis are the first known Britons to fight for Putin on Ukrainian soil and are reportedly under fire from a former British army commander. Mirror. Former British Army commander Richard Kemp expressed his anger, saying both soldiers “clearly do not know who the enemy is.”
The two soldiers are in the Donbass with Vladimir Putin’s forces and have posted several images and messages on social media with the Russian flag on their chests.
Ben Stimson, 48, was arrested while helping pro-Russian militias in Donbass, Ukraine, in 2015. He recently revealed that he had returned to Russia and was wearing a military uniform, making his choice clear. The unemployed mercenary has an active online presence and showed several frontline soldiers walking past two dead bodies on Tuesday evening. While fighting for Russia, Ben was disinherited by his father.
Aiden Minnis, 37, a former National Front member, has a long history of drugs and crime and claims Putin is the “greatest politician in the world”. In 2006, Minnis was involved in the death of a couple, and in 2008 he was arrested for a racist attack.