The U.K. authorities volition supply assistance to a British antheral reportedly detained by Russian forces portion warring for Ukraine, Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Monday during G7 talks.
Lammy confirmed helium had been briefed connected the concern involving 22-year-old James Anderson, who was reportedly captured successful Russia’s Kursk region. “We volition connection this U.K. nationalist each the enactment we can,” Lammy said.
Over the weekend, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels circulated a video of a antheral with his hands tied, identifying himself arsenic Anderson. The antheral claimed helium had joined the Ukrainian service aft being dismissed from the British service successful 2023.
Scott Anderson, the 41-year-old begetter of James, told The Daily Mail that helium learned of his son’s seizure from his Ukrainian commandant and received the video.
“I was successful implicit daze and successful tears. I could spot consecutive distant it was him,” Anderson said, describing his lad arsenic appearing “frightened, frightened and worried.”
James Anderson, a erstwhile signalman from Banbury, England, reportedly traveled to Ukraine 8 months agone contempt his household urging him not to.
British authorities question proposal warns citizens against traveling to Ukraine to combat oregon assistance successful the war, saying that specified actions could effect successful prosecution nether U.K. law.
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