British captive dies in pro-Russian separatist region of Ukraine

By AFP 15 July 2022, 12:48 pm

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Rescue workers stand on the rubble at the scene in the after math of a missile strike that his a residential apartment block, in Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, July 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Paul Urey, a British man captured by pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, has died in detention, Moscow-backed separatists say.

“He died on July 10,” Darya Morozova, a representative of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, says on Telegram, adding that he had diabetes.

Non-governmental organizations describe Urey as a humanitarian who worked as an aid volunteer in Ukraine, while Moscow-backed separatists insist he was a “professional” soldier.