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Jilly Beattie

Roman Abramovich negotiated release of Brit jailed by Russian separatists in Ukraine

One of the British men detained by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has revealed that Roman Abramovich helped negotiate their release.

The five British men boarded a BA flight from King Khalid International Airport, Saudi shortly at 12.35am on Thursday on their way to Heathrow to be questioned by UK government officials before being allowed to meet their families. They had been released by their Russian captors on Wednesday morning.

One passenger on the flight, engineer Alec Pettet, said he spoke to the men after hearing one of them had been shot while in Ukraine.

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