they were working for a nonprofit organisation called called the presidium network. forjoining us. i think many of our viewers may not know what you do so explain what your organisation does and what these two men were doing for un ukraine. to these two men were doing for un ukraine. ., . ., , , ., ukraine. to clarify, they were not working directly _ ukraine. to clarify, they were not working directly with _ ukraine. to clarify, they were not working directly with us. - ukraine. to clarify, they were not working directly with us. we - ukraine. to clarify, they were notj working directly with us. we were introduced to them two weeks ago and they were working independently as volunteers during evacuation. they had contact details which they wanted to be part of our organisation which they never officially signed up to. presidium network in our cells are an ngo nonprofit based in the uk with the international network of experts and we have experts on our team. we run logistics within crisis zones and helping to get aid into the country and we have also assisted with ev

the nonprofit organisation, presidium network, said the men were providing humanitarian assistance ins in kyiv. hello from kyiv. the attack coincided with the visit here of the united nations secretary general antonio guterres who had just finished a meeting with president zelensky. we heard the explosions, and shortly afterwards, the secretary general told me he was shocked by the attack. ukraine says it was an attempt to humiliate the un. they called it a barbaric act, heinous act and a postcard from moscow. moscow says the missiles were launched from a submarine in the black sea. meanwhile an aid organisation says it believes two british volunteers providing humanitarian assistance here in ukraine have been captured by the russian military, near the city of zaporizhzhia. they have been named as paul urey in dylan healy. joe inwood, here in kyiv, has our first report. if kyiv thought it was safe from russian attack, last night was a rude awakening. the capital had not been targeted by russian missiles for two weeks. translation: the first one struck on that side, - it was really lou

i am reporting the disappearance of foreign volunteers, said the director of the presidium network organization, dominique byrne. they lost contact with the men on monday when they were traveling to the south of the zaporizhzhia region to help evacuate civilians, a family that the british tried to evacuate . later detained and interrogated by russian soldiers, the occupiers were interested in whether the volunteers were foreign spies, in the end his family was released at the same time about the fate of the volunteers at the moment, nothing is known, the regional prosecutor's office has started criminal proceedings, russia tried to exchange ukrainian civilians for russian military personnel, and this is prohibited by the geneva convention , according to deputy prime minister iryna vereshchuk, which ukraine refused to call on russia to return ukrainian civilians, there is numerous evidence that the occupiers forcibly deported across the border, a large number of civilians after the invasion of ukraine in february varishchuk noted that ukrainians are using people as hostages in prisons and pre-tr

sinn informs about the disappearance of foreign volunteers, the director of the presidium network organizationdominique byrne, lost contact with the men on monday when they were traveling to the south of the zaporizhia region to help evacuate civilians, the family that the british tried to evacuate was later detained and interrogated by russian soldiers, the occupiers were interested in whether the volunteers were foreign spies , after all, the families at the same time , nothing is known about the fate of the volunteers, the regional prosecutor's office started criminal proceedings for two months of russia's war against ukraine until law enforcement officers received more than 7,000 reports of missing people, half of them were searched. deputy minister of internal affairs of ukraine mary hakopyan reported the status of unidentified people. they received about two thousand dead, of which 1,282 bodies were subsequently identified. more than 900 examinations were also scheduled. creation of a unified register of missing persons, a group of specialists will soon arrive in kyiv to provide concrete

the information has come from | the presidium network.e getting in the coming hours. ~ . , ., have to be getting in the coming hours. ~ . ,~. ,, ., have to be getting in the coming hours. ~ . ,, ., ., hours. what you will know from first-hand _ hours. what you will know from first-hand experience _ hours. what you will know from first-hand experience is - hours. what you will know from first-hand experience is those i first—hand experience is those humanitarian organisations are working in very difficult circumstances. .., . , circumstances. extraordinarily difficult circumstances, i circumstances. extraordinarily i difficult circumstances, dangerous circumstances. we have been kind of lucky, i guess, the people working have been lucky there have not been that many examples of aid workers being killed. it is notjust aid workers, there are 20,000 foreigners here, many of them are fighting. yesterday we had reports of scott sibley, a former army veteran, he was killed fighting. this is a war zone, and very dangerous place and people will ge

now, they were not working with this organisation called the presidium network, as has been reported.ef executive of that organisation has just spoke to the bbc. he said they were in contact with them and had been trying to offer them some support, so he is the person who the information has been coming out from. now, what we understand is that on monday they tried to cross ukrainian and russian lines, try to get through a checkpoint. it took them six hours to do this, to get south into russian occupied territory. again, according to dominik byrne, they were trying to rescue a family. now, we don't know exactly what happened but it seems, according to his account, that at some point after crossing into russian territory they were detained. we don't have much more information than that, but there is of course concern for their welfare, for their well—being. theirfamilies, we understand, have been in touch with the foreign office, who say they are trying desperately to find out more information. as you heard from joe inwood there, dominik byrne, the co—founder of a charity working in uk

co—founder of a uk based not—for—profit organisation, presidium network. be. at the moment it is zero. on the one side you have got the russians, who would want to annex large portions of ukrainian territory. ukrainians, not only want that not to happen, also they want to regain territory lost in 2014. virtually no is a four agreement there in a diplomatic solution now. the time that you might see a diplomatic solution as we are one side militarily knows the game is up, knows it has lost. given the support ukrainians are currently getting from nato, and given the resources the russians have behind them, and also the necessity to present some kind of victory for president putin and his political survival, no side is going to think the game is up, no side is going to be coming to the negotiating table, because they have to at this point, so i do not think a diplomatic solution is coming any time soon. thank you for the latest. our correspondent in kyiv. it is bank holiday weekend. will the weather match our expectations of a bank holiday weekend? iam going i

in fact, yes volunteer yes, a humanitarian mission organization, even the presidium network i even lookedle now all live here so generally invisible, you know, i looked at what they were doing. uh, they took some valuable people out of afghanistan , uh, from behind enemy lines. and now they were also sent to the rear. uh, of course, they were collecting, for sure , intelligence, so it turned out that this was not afghanistan well, yes, but here we are. and now, that's very curious, of course it will bring them to clean water, er, and explain. but still, what kind of humanitarian mission is this? uh, here, many of those present worked immediately communicated with various humanitarian organizations that work in the chris area but imagine that they do not know what is needed. if you enter the territory controlled by some troops and do not notify these troops, yes, then it means that it is certainly not just a humanitarian mission. you are engaged in espionage and will be responsible for espionage. well, in general, yes, and where did they get them in the zaporozhye region on the territory u