Brit aid worker dad seized by Russians as a 'spy' as mum begs for his release

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Russian troops as they were working to rescue a woman and two children trapped in in the Ukrainian city of Dniprorudne.The mum of one of the British volunteers, Paul Urey, has released a statement asking for help getting her son back home.Linda Urey wrote: "My family and I are extremely worried. "We know my son Paul and his friend who was humanitarian aid volunteer in Ukraine has been captured by the Russians. "He was out there on his own accord.

We want everyone’s support to bring son home and pray he is safe".Linda added that Paul is Type 1 Diabetic and "needs his Insulin".She says she that she has contacted the Foreign Office as well as the aid organisation Paul was working for, The Presidium Network, in a bid to secure his release.Paul, along with fellow British aid worker Dylan Healy, is believed to have been captured by the Russians on Sunday or Monday.The Presidium Network said they had lost contact with Paul at about 4am on Monday, April 25.Disturbingly, they received replies to their Viber messages from Paul’s mobile phone some time later but the person using the phone failed to pass a standard security check.The messages "were not written in their natural style,” said a Presidium spokesperson, “and failed to issue code words for security”.The messages were "verified as fake,” they said.Dominik Byrne, the co-founder and chief operating officer of the charity, said that the Ukrainian nationals who were being helped by Paul and Dylan were later interrogated by Russian military personnel, who demanded to know how how they knew the men they described as "British spies".It is unclear where the two British humanitarian workers have been taken, and both men are said to have gone to Ukraine voluntarily to aid in.