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Pjotr Sauer

Russia says Tory MP’s son involved in killing Chechen commander in Ukraine

Ben Grant.
Ben Grant shortly before departing for Ukraine on 5 March. Photograph: Reuters

Russia has accused the son of a Conservative MP of involvement in the killing of a Chechen brigade commander in Ukraine after footage emerged of the British national fighting in the country.

Russia’s National Guard, a force also known as Rosgvardia, said in a statement on its website that one of its commanders, the Chechen fighter Adam Bisultanov, was killed on 26 May in a clash with a “group of mercenaries from the UK and the USA” that included the “son of a British parliamentarian,” Ben Grant.

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