A private military firm has reportedly found the body of one of two voluntary aid workers reported missing in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Russia’s Wagner Group said it had found documents belonging to both aid workers on the body.<\/p>\n
A photo posted alongside the statement, which was made in a Telegram chat group and reposted by various accounts on social media, shows two passports, one bearing Andrew Bagshaw’s name, and the other, that of British man Christopher Parry.<\/p>\n
Kiwi KARE (Aid and Refugee Evacuation) director Tenby Powell said neither he nor Bagshaw’s family could comment yet, as it was still unconfirmed information.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) said in a statement it was aware of the reports, but had no further information at this time.<\/p>\n
Andrew Bagshaw is the son of two prominent Christchurch doctors, Dame Sue and Philip Bagshaw.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a journalist who spoke with Bagshaw days before his disappearance said he had been taking a priest to pray with soldiers on the frontline.<\/p>\n
Arnaud De Decker spoke with Bagshaw on Tuesday last week, days before he disappeared.<\/p>\n
De Decker told\u00a0Morning Report<\/i>\u00a0he was working in the city centre of Bakhmut when he met Bagshaw at a humanitarian hut.<\/p>\n
He also spoke to British national Christopher Parry, a friend of Bagshaw and fellow aid worker who was also missing.<\/p>\n
“I started talking to Andrew and Andrew had a very interesting story actually. It was last week on the 3rd of January, still very much in the Christmas vibe and he was going to frontline areas, meeting soldiers with a priest, an Orthodox priest from western Ukraine.<\/p>\n
“He was taking this priest to meet soldiers to bless the soldiers, to pray together in the trenches.”<\/p>\n
De Decker was meant to meet with Bagshaw again later in the week but he had already gone missing.<\/p>\n
“The last time someone saw them was on Friday 6 January, they were going from …western Donetsk in the direction of Soledar and Soledar- very intense fighting right now since a couple of days.<\/p>\n
“They were together, on their way to evacuate some civilians in the city centre of Soledar.”<\/p>\n
Source – RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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