Two British volunteers, working to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine, have been captured by the Russian military there, according to the organization for which the men worked.

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The non-profit Presidium Network said the two men had been detained by Russian forces at a checkpoint south of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine on Monday.

There was no immediate comment from the British foreign ministry.

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“The foreign office is doing all it can to support and identify these two persons,’’ British Trade Minister, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, told Sky News.

The Presidium Network said the men, both civilians, were working as part of a Joint Humanitarian Operations Centre project in Ukraine to help provide food and medical supplies and evacuation support.

On Thursday, the British government confirmed that a British national had been killed and another was missing in Ukraine, with media reporting that the dead man was a former British army veteran who was believed to have been fighting with Ukrainian forces. (Reuters/NAN)