• Russian proxies captured John Harding, a British citizen who had been fighting Russia as a member of the Azov Regiment
• In the video, he asks British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to facilitate his release because he fears receiving the death penalty.
• “It understood Mr Harding was captured in May when Ukrainian units he was fighting with at the Azovstal steelworks were forced to surrender.

Russian proxies captured John Harding, a British citizen who had been fighting Russia as a member of the Azov Regiment, and he is currently being imprisoned in the self-declared “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine.

According to the BBC, who was referencing Harding’s video interview with a Russian TV host, such is the case.

In the video, he asks British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to facilitate his release because he fears receiving the death penalty. His imprisonment, according to the Foreign Office, is a cause for worry.

“It understood Mr Harding was captured in May when Ukrainian units he was fighting with at the Azovstal steelworks were forced to surrender. The units had been defending the south-eastern city of Mariupol at the time. The video says he was part of the Azov regiment. Mr Harding had told friends he was fighting as part of the Ukrainian National Guard,” the report reads.

Since 2018, Harding had engaged in combat in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. He earlier admitted to the BBC that he had gone there to utilize his combat medical training to aid in the conflict with Russian forces.

A Russian stand-in court in the “DPR” has executed Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, two further British males who were also apprehended in Mariupol.

They both emigrated to Ukraine at roughly the same time as Mr. Harding, establishing residence there. British relief worker Paul Urey passed away last week while being detained by Russian forces in east Ukraine.