James Scott Rhys Anderson: Who is ex-British soldier captured in Russia’s Kursk region?

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy James Scott Rhys Anderson, who says he is a former British soldier, has been captured in Russia’s Kursk region while fighting for Ukraine, according to Russian state media. Russian state outlet RIA reported a national security source as saying that he is a British citizen fighting with the Ukrainian army in Russia’s Kursk region. “I it on the TV.It was a stupid idea.” open image in gallery Two Russian military volunteers in Kursk Scott Anderson confirmed to the Daily Mail that his son had been operating as a signalman in Ukraine’s International Legion, saying: “I’m hoping he’ll be used as a bargaining chip but my son told me they torture their prisoners and I’m so frightened he’ll be tortured.” Mr Anderson said his son had been in the British armed forces for four years, having gone to Army Foundation College as a 17-year-old. ‘I didn’t want him to go,’ father says Speaking to the Mail from his home in Oxfordshire, his 41-year-old father said he had spoken to his son on WhatsApp nearly every day until he was posted on his most recent operation in the past week, and had been in the Ukrainian border region of Sumy – which neighbours Kursk – during their last contact.