A British man has been killed in Ukraine and a second British man is missing, the Foreign Office said on Thursday.

It is thought that the pair had been fighting against Russian forces as volunteers in support of Ukraine‘s military, although this has not been confirmed.

The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) did not provide any details on what the men had been doing in Ukraine.

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An FCDO spokesperson said: “We can confirm that a British national has been killed in Ukraine and are supporting their family.”

On the second British man, the FCDO spokesperson said: “We are aware of a British national who is missing in Ukraine and are supporting their family. We are urgently seeking further information.”

The Foreign Office did not provide details on when the British national was killed and when the other man went missing and is urgently seeking further information.

There are a number of fighters who have decided to head to Ukraine to join the fight against Vladimir Putin’s forces, including British veterans.

At the beginning of the war, Ukraine’s government urged volunteers from across the world to come and help support its armed forces as they took on Russia’s invasion.

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The advice from the UK government has been that people should not travel to Ukraine to fight, but they can support Ukraine in many other ways.

A number of individuals decided to come anyway and are in the country helping Ukraine’s military defence.

It comes a week after two British fighters – Shaun Pinner and Aiden Aslin – were captured by Moscow’s forces.

The pair, who have been held in Ukraine, appeared on Russian state TV and asked to be swapped for Viktor Medvedchuk, a Ukrainian politician who is close to Vladimir Putin.

They asked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to help bring them home in exchange for Ukraine releasing captured oligarch Mr Medvedchuk, who was shown in a video released around the same time on Monday by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service asking to be swapped too.

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