Fears mount over ‘mystery’ disappearance of Brit war veteran fighting Russia

Concern is mounting for a heroic British freedom fighter who has gone missing in Ukraine.

Former paratrooper Daniel Burke was last seen on August 11 in the city of Zaporizhzhia, around 15 miles from the frontline.

The 36-year-old Mancunian formed a volunteer group last year – the Dark Angels.

The veteran led a hair-raising mission to take down a Russian armoured vehicle using a Javelin anti-tank missile in the bloody battle of Kherson.

Since then he had begun to focus on rescuing and evacuating stranded civilians from Zaporizhzhia and from Bakhmut – a place now sadly synonymous with merciless Russian violence against terrified defenceless locals.

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Police managed to get into his apartment, but didn’t find any evidence he had been attacked there or forced from it.

He was last seen when a friend dropped him off at his apartment building at around 6.30pm on Friday.

The next day his phone was unresponsive. Fellow volunteers have rushed to the city to try and locate him.

One said simply: “It’s a mystery.”

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The Afghan veteran was working as a builder in Manchester, until the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing inspired him to take the fight to Isis.

The hero, who served with 3rd Battalion in the Parachute Regiment from 2007 to 2009, went to Syria and served with the Kurdish YPG group with other foreign fighters.

In 2019, Burke was arrested in Britain on suspicion of terrorism, however the case was dropped without charges.

Turkey sees the YPG as a terrorist organisation, but they were allies of the UK in the war against Isis.

The anxious wait to learn the fate of the war veteran comes amid international concern about Russian false flag attacks in Zaporizhzhia, the area Burke was fighting, as well as elsewhere.

Zaporizhzhia is home to the continent’s largest nuclear facility and there have been reports that the Kremlin has ensured that the plant is mined with explosives.

An explosion at the plant may lead to nuclear catastrophe, which some leading experts, including UK bio-weapons specialist Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, warns may drag NATO into an armed military conflict with Russia.

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