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Russian Guardsmen on an armored personnel carrier. File photoMOSCOW, May 28.The British newspaper «i», citing a video, claims that the son of British Conservative parliamentarian Helen Grant led a group of Western mercenaries who tried to destroy a Russian armored personnel carrier in northern Ukraine. The fact that 30-year-old Ben Grant joined the Ukrainian military became known at the beginning March, when he spoke to reporters in Lviv. Grant has been reported to have spent more than five years in the Royal Marines Special Forces Battalion. «i» employees claim to have verified video footage of one of the mercenaries coming out of the woods and aiming a Matador shoulder-mounted anti-tank missile at an APC standing 100 meters away. Grant himself , according to the publication, while yelling «let's shoot» and «watch out for recoil.» Only individual frames of the video recording with Grant's participation are published on the publication's website. cases against a group of foreign mercenaries from Britain and Morocco, said that they could face the death penalty. The British Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin surrendered in Ukraine in mid-April. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that in accordance with international humanitarian law, mercenaries cannot claim combatant status, so «the best thing that awaits them is a long prison term.» said that he and Aslin had approached Prime Minister Boris Johnson with a request for assistance in their exchange for opposition Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk. acknowledged that the Russian Armed Forces are making tangible progress in the Donbass