By Joseph Gamp
A BRITISH aid group says it believes two Britons have been abducted by Putin’s forces in southeastern Ukraine.
Dominik Byrne, co-founder and chief operating officer of the Presidium Network, says the missing workers had not been heard from since Monday.
The men – identified as Paul Urey and Dylan Healy – had been operating alone in Ukraine war zone and hadn’t been associated with any aid group.
Byrne believes the pair were snatched by Putin‘s forces while trying to carry out an independent evacuation in Dniprorudne, near the city of Zaporizhzhia, some 470 kilometers (290 miles) southeast of Kyiv.
He also said the family that the two men had been trying to evacuate later were interrogated by Russian forces, who asked them about British spies.
Russia has not acknowledged or confirmed taking the men.
International Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan said: “The Foreign Office is doing all it can to support and identify these two people.”
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