a family and obviously went disastrously wrong and he s been in captivity ever since. the only thing we ve seen of him as a single video put out by the authorities and we found the news today that he is reportedly dead, as you say, of health conditions and stress while in captivity. his mother has put out a statement saying she is absolutely devastated, she is in shock and she blames the russian authorities for what has happened. interestingly the russians say paul urey was there as a mercenary. that s something that strenuously denied by both his family here, the presidium network who have been working with him, and the british foreign office. they ve not confirmed the death officially but it s thought the reports are accurate. there s been thought in recent weeks and months the russians have been using british hostages and captives as part of some political tool, as some negotiating strategy. if that is the case then paul urey has paid a very high price indeed for that tactic.
that these british prisoners are kept safe, ah well, are treated well, but also that the red cross themselves, and international agencies like this, which have a good track record of dealing with people in prisons, having contact within the russian side and will be trying to get access, the next big stages for the red cross to be able to go in and check on their welfare, check on the human rights of their conditions, and also of their case as an independent organisation. dominik burn from presidium network presidium network, thank you this morning. they have a lot of contact with these individuals and their families, just to reiterate that those reports of the charges are coming from a russian state media. so we are finding out a little bit
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for the latest on the two british volunteers reportedly captured by the russian military, here s our kyiv correspondentjoe inwood. we understand that they were working as independent humanitarian workers trying to rescue a family who had been stuck behind russian lines south of a place called zaporizhzhia. now, they were not working with this organisation called the presidium network, as has been reported. the chief executive of that organisation has just spoke to the bbc. he said they were in contact with them and had been trying to offer them some support, so he is the person who the information has been coming out from. now, what we understand is that on monday they tried to cross ukrainian and russian lines, try to get through a checkpoint. it took them six hours to do this, to get south into russian occupied territory. again, according to dominik byrne, they were trying to rescue a family. now, we don t know exactly what happened but it seems, according to his account, that at som
been stuck behind russian lines south of a place called zaporizhzhia. now, they were not working with this organisation called the presidium network, as has been reported. the chief executive of that organisation has just spoke to the bbc. he said they were in contact with them and had been trying to offer them some support, so he is the person who the information has been coming out from. now, what we understand is that on monday they tried to cross ukrainian and russian lines, try to get through a checkpoint. it took them six hours to do this, to get south into russian occupied territory. again, according to dominik byrne, they were trying to rescue a family. now, we don t know exactly what happened but it seems, according to his account, that at some point after crossing into russian territory they were detained. we don t have much more information than that, but there is of course concern for their welfare, for their well being. theirfamilies, we understand, have been in touch with