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I’m hoping he’ll be used as a bargaining chip, but my son told me they torture their prisoners and I’m so frightened he’ll be tortured,
he told the newspaper
I was in the British Army before, from 2019 to 2023, 22 Signal Regiment. Just a private. I was a signalman. One Signal Brigade, 22 Signal Regiment, 252 Squadron.”
He said to the camera
I flew to Krakow, Poland, from London Luton. Bus from there to Medyka in Poland, on the Ukraine border.”
He described how he had travelled to Ukraine from Britain, sayingWe are supporting the family of a British man following reports of his detention.
A Foreign Office spokesman said
There were two servicemen from Britain, mercenaries
The defence ministry quoted the deputy commander of the Russian battalion that led the assault, Igor Krasilnikov, as sayingI was quite aggressive when I was first captured but it didn’t work
Mr Harding, who had been fighting in Ukraine for four years before being captured and subjected to interrogation and torture, addedWe spoke on WhatsApp almost every day until he went on his most recent operation
The father-of-four saidI’d say to him, don’t give up hope
In a message to Mr Anderson, Mr Harding, 61, saidSo when I got fired from my job I applied on the International Legion webpage. I had just lost everything, I had just lost my job. My dad was away in prison. I see it on the TV,
Anderson added while shaking his head
A mercenary from Britain has been taken prisoner in the Kursk region.”
Russian military source told the state-controlled TASS news agency
Overall, the footage will be useful and will be able to tell a lot of interesting things about communications and its structure in the British army.”
A Russian report said