Notorious mercenary organisation referred to the two missing in a post that has yet to be confirmed by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Andrei Baevsky, an occupation official in partly Russian-controlled Donetsk region, said “there are still certain small pockets of resistance in Soledar, our guys continue to crush the enemy in these places”.
“Immense efforts were made in Soledar, and those actions were absolutely self-sacrificing and heroic ... and they will continue,” he added. Much of the fighting for Soledar and Bakhmut is being done by Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which has recruited convicts from prison to throw into battle on the promise of a pardon if they survive.
Mr Peskov said the Kremlin only knew “from media reports that we are talking about British citizens who, in fact, were militants and took part in hostilities with weapons in their hands, and it seems their documents were found on the battlefield.”
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