Two British men went to Soledar. Neither came back. Two British citizens, Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry, departed from…

Two British men went to Soledar. Neither came back.

Two British citizens, Andrew Bagshaw and Chris Parry, departed from the city of Kramatorsk at 8 a.m. on Jan. 6 and headed east toward the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russia, Ukrainian police said.

Their mission, according to an aid worker familiar with the matter, was to evacuate an elderly woman in Soledar, a small town where Russian and Ukrainian forces were waging a vicious fight.

They never returned. Read more

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