Briton Paul Urey, who was captured and detained as a mercenary in April by pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, died July 10, separatist authorities said today.
“Despite the severity of (his) crimes, Paul Urey received adequate medical care. Despite this, faced with his diagnosis and ‘stress’, he passed away on July 10,” said the head of separatist rights in the Donetsk region. Daria Morozova on the Telegram social network.
Daria Morozova claimed that Paul Urey was a mercenary and not a humanitarian worker, as his family and employer allege.
The British non-profit organization Presidium Network announced on April 29 that two aid workers, Paul Urey and Dylan Healy, had been captured by the Russian army.
Yuuri’s mother indicated that her son was on a humanitarian mission, that he was diabetic and needed insulin.
A native of Manchester, in the north of England, Paul Urey is introduced by the Presidium Network as a family man who did not serve in the military but spent eight years in Afghanistan as a businessman, and Dylan Healy worked for a hotel chain in the United Kingdom.
Morozova said in a publication today that the British authorities knew that Yuriy was being held by the Donetsk armed forces, but did nothing for the British citizen.
Daria Morozova accuses Yuri of “leading military operations, recruiting and training mercenaries for Ukrainian gangs.”
According to a separatist official, Yuuri suffered from diabetes, kidney problems, respiratory and heart problems, and psychological disorders.
The same separatist territory of Donetsk, whose independence Moscow recognized shortly before the February 24 attack on Ukraine, sentenced two other Britons and a Moroccan to death for being mercenaries.
In Telegram, Morozova did not say anything about Dylan Healy, who was captured along with Paul Urey, Presidium Network reports.
