The bodies of two Britons, Christopher Parry and Andrew Bagshaw, killed in Ukraine, from where they had volunteered, were recovered as part of a prisoner exchange between Kyiv and Moscow, Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday.
“We managed to recover the bodies of dead foreign volunteers,” said Andriï Yermak, head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration.
The return of the bodies of the two men came as part of an exchange of 116 Ukrainian and 63 Russian prisoners between Moscow and Kyiv.
originally missing
Christopher Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw, 48, were killed while attempting a humanitarian evacuation from the town of Soledar, the scene of heavy fighting in early January and largely destroyed by shelling, the family confirmed in late January. by Christopher Parry, via the UK Foreign Office.
They had been missing for several weeks, and the leader of the Wagner group, Evguéni Prigojine, had indicated on January 11 that his combatants had found the body of one of them in Soledar.
Soledar, epicenter of the fighting
The Ukrainian army admitted on January 25 that it had surrendered to Russian forces Soledar, located not far from Bakhmout in the east of the country, which has become the epicenter of fighting almost a year after the start of the invasion of the country. . The Russians claimed his capture for two weeks.
Contacted, the British Foreign Office was unable to react immediately.
Source: BFM TV
