BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has been criticised for encouraging people to fight in Ukraine after two British nationals were sentenced to death by firing squad. 

Former Nottinghamshire care worker Aidan Aslin and former British soldier Shaun Pinner were found guilty of crimes of “mercenary and terrorist” activities by a court in the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic on Thursday. 

The pair, who were captured in the eastern city of Mariupol last month, pleaded guilty to the charges, however they were unable to present a defence during the three-day trial which was branded “a sham” by Ms Truss.