A British aid worker detained by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine has died in captivity, a separatist official and a U.K. charity involved with his case said Friday.
aid charity said Paul Urey's family had been notified of his death by British officials.
Urey, 45, was detained in April at a checkpoint near Zaporizhzhia, some 290 miles southeast of Kyiv, along with another British man, Dylan Healy. The two men had been operating on their own in the war zone, helping to evacuate civilians. "It's obvious that his welfare was not looked after," Byrne said."The Russian authorities and the Donetsk People's Republic knew he had need of insulin but all the way through this the Red Cross has been denied welfare access to him and has never been able to verify his actual conditions in prison."
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