Two British ex-soldiers captured in Russia while fighting for Ukraine

Two British mercenaries warring for Ukraine wrong Russia person reportedly been captured by Putin’s forces.

Video footage shows British worker James Scott Rhys Anderson tied to a seat aft being taken captive and interrogated by Russian soldiers.

A 2nd soldier, known arsenic Jimmy Wray, was besides aboriginal revealed to person been captured by Russians, and was shown to beryllium interrogated by his captors with portion implicit his eyes.

Both men are believed to person been captured during fierce warring successful Russia’s Kursk region, wherever Ukrainian troops staged a astonishment cross-border incursion implicit the summer.

In a bid of propaganda videos filmed by the Russians, some men revealed their subject histories and however they had recovered themselves captured.

Anderson claimed to person served successful the British service from 2019 to 2023, and joined Ukraine’s International Brigade arsenic a mercenary aft being fired from the equipped forces.

The 22-year-old mercenary claims to person served successful the 22nd Signal Regiment, a portion of the Royal Corps of Signals successful the British Army, which provides cutting-edge connection and accusation systems enactment to the warring force.

Wray besides claims to person served arsenic a signalman for 4 years.

Anderson said helium was successful the ’22 Signal Regiment, conscionable a private. I was a signalman. 1 Signal Brigade, 22 Signal Regiment. 252 Squadron.

He past went connected to explicate wherefore helium joined Ukrainian forces warring Russia connected the frontline. 

Anderson added: ‘Okay – truthful erstwhile I left, got fired from my job, I applied connected the International Legion [of Ukraine] webpage.

‘I had conscionable mislaid everything. I conscionable mislaid my job.

‘My dada was distant successful prison. I saw it connected the TV. It’s a anserine idea. I flew to Krakow, Poland, from London Luton.

‘Bus from determination to Medyka successful Poland, connected the Ukraine borderline [and past to Ukraine].’

Wray meanwhile, introduced himself arsenic being ‘Jimmy Wray, Britannia, Oxford.’

Unlike Anderson though, his words connected camera appeared to marque small sense.

‘I learned for 1 year. And I enactment for 4 years,’ helium said.

‘Commander, instrumentality my **** and archer maine to come… take  my passport, everything, my telephone……. I don’t privation to beryllium here.’ 

He said helium had been with Ukrainian forces for 4 months, and implied his relation was to thatch Ukrainians ‘how to shoot,  however to…patrol,  possibly evacuation.’

A Russian subject root told the state-controlled TASS quality agency: ‘A mercenary from Britain has been taken captive successful the Kursk region.’

A Russian study said: ‘Overall, the footage volition beryllium utile and volition beryllium capable to archer a batch of absorbing things astir communications and its operation successful the British army.’

Ukraine holds respective 100 quadrate kilometres of the  Kursk region, which borders the northeast of Ukraine, but Putin’s forces are gradually pushing them back.

Inside Kursk, it has been claimed that North Korean soldiers are warring alongside Russians. 

The seizure comes aft a apical Russian general, on with 500 North Korean soldiers, were allegedly killed by British Storm Shadow missiles successful a devastating attack.

The UK Foreign Office said it was ‘supporting the household of a British antheral pursuing reports of his detention’.

The Ministry of Defence has declined to remark astatine this stage.

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