British citizen died in so-called DPR

The International Defense Legion of Ukraine confirmed information about the death of an employee of the humanitarian organization Presidium Network, a citizen of Great Britain, Paul Urey.

It is reported by "Interfax-Ukraine" with reference to the press service of the International Legion.

"We are saddened by the news of Mr. Urey's death. We want to clarify that he was not in the International Legion. He did not fight in Ukraine. He was an employee of a humanitarian organization, as confirmed by the Presidium Network, a non-profit organization where Mr. Urey worked."

Details: the International Legion noted that since Urey was not a legionnaire, they could not provide any additional information.

Earlier, the so-called DPR militants reported that Paul Urey died on July 10 due to "diagnoses and stress," assuring that the British man was provided with medical assistance.

In April, the co-founder and chief operating officer of the Presidium Network, Dominic Byrne, reported that two citizens of Great Britain, Paul Urey, and Dylan Gilly, were kidnapped in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.

As Rubryka reported earlier, terrorists of the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk region imposed a death "sentence" on three foreign fighters defending Ukraine. 

The so-called Supreme Court of the DPR imposed the first sentence on foreign soldiers who fought on the side of Ukraine, whom they refer to as "mercenaries." These were the British Aiden Aslin, Sean Pinner, and the Moroccan Saadun Brahim. The death penalty is to be carried out by firing squad.

According to Kyiv Post, on July 8, the so-called DPR abolished a temporary moratorium on the death penalty, supposedly as a deterrent against grave crimes that it sees as a threat to the quasi-state. The death penalty is to be carried out by firing squad.

All foreign prisoners sentenced to death in the so-called DPR appeal their sentences.

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