US State Department building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, Jul 19 The U.S. State Department is «saddened and deeply concerned» by the death of British mercenary Paul Ury, who was held captive in the DPR, said Ned Price, a spokesman for the department. Earlier, DPR Ombudsman Daria Morozova said that the British mercenary Paul Johnson Anthony Dominic Ury, who was held captive in the DPR, died on July 10 due to illness and a depressed state «due to indifference to his fate in his homeland.» In this regard, the UK Foreign Office has summoned Russian Ambassador to London Andrey Kelin. «We are saddened and deeply concerned about the death of Paul Ury, a British humanitarian who was captured by Russia,» Price wrote on Twitter. Igor Konashenkov stated 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.
