Ukrainian servicemen. File photoMOSCOW, Jul 15British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss blamed Russia for the death of British mercenary Paul Ury, who was held captive in the DPR, according to a statement published on the website of the British government. «I am shocked by the news of the death British humanitarian worker Paul Ury, who was in the custody of the Russian satellite in Ukraine. Russia should be held fully responsible for this,» Truss is quoted in the document, without explaining why Moscow should be held accountable. Earlier, DNR Ombudsman Daria Morozova said that he in the Donetsk People's Republic, British mercenary Paul Johnson Anthony Dominic Oury died on July 10 due to illness and depression from indifference to his fate in his homeland. In this regard, the British Foreign Office summoned the Russian ambassador in London, Andrei Kelin. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov, said that the mercenaries who arrived in Ukraine are not combatants, «the best thing that awaits them is a long term in prison.» The head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported in June that the number of foreign mercenaries fighting in the Donbass is declining, they are trying to leave Ukraine. In Donetsk, on June 9, three foreigners captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death — two British citizens Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, as well as a Moroccan citizen Saadoun Brahim. All three pleaded guilty to Ukraine's armed aggression aimed at seizing power in the DPR. in Ukraine
