The 36-year-old from Manchester had been missing since 11 August and family believe he had travelled to Ukraine
She said the Ukrainian authorities were using CCTV to try to trace his movements on 11 August, when he was last seen, and the last time she spoke to him he “sounded on good form”.
Burke arrived in Ukraine at the beginning of the war and formed his own volunteer military unit; named the Dark Angels. However, he later switched to frontline rescue and evacuation work. He previously served in the Parachute regiment of the British army. In 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service abandoned controversial terror charges against him and two others who were accused of helping a fourth to travel to Syria to fight with the Kurdish YPG – an enemy of the Islamic State group.
Burke was arrested in Dover in 2019 and had been accused of wanting to travel to Syria himself as well as helping Dan Newey leave the UK, a month after Turkish forces began an incursion into Syria, during the conflict there. He had fought against Islamic State with the YPG in Syria himself in 2017 and 2018 – at a time when the Royal Air Force was involved in bombing the Islamist group, and British and other special forces were secretly deployed on the ground, training Kurdish forces to take it on.
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