Paul Urey, 45-year-old British citizen, is dead “diseases and stress” in a prison in Donetsk, said, Friday, July 15, the pro-Russian separatist authorities of this territory, calling it a “mercenary”. “Despite the gravity of his crimes, Paul Urey received adequate medical assistance. Despite this, he died on July 10.said the human rights officer of the People’s Republic of Donetsk, an entity controlled by Moscow.
His capture, at a roadblock in the Zaporijia region, was made public at the end of April. Paul Urey’s mother then indicated that her son was on a humanitarian mission, that he suffered from diabetes and needed insulin.
“Russia must bear full responsibility”
A non-profit organization based in the United Kingdom, Presidium Network, had confirmed that Paul Urey and Dylan Healy, another Briton, had been captured by the Russian army in southern Ukraine , as they sought to evacuate a woman and two children. Paul Urey is presented by Presidium Network as a family man who did not serve in the army, but spent eight years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor.
saying to themselves “shocked” by the announcement of this death, the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, warned that ” Russia [devait] bear full responsibility”. The separatist territory of Donetsk has sentenced two other Britons and a Moroccan to death for mercenary charges.
