GBBBC News England
Briton fighting for Russia killed in Ukraine
Bradley Townsend left South Yorkshire in April, telling his family he was going to Romania.
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- #2388
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- 24 Aug 2026, 16:55 UTC
- Last checked
- 25 Aug 2026, 05:26 UTC
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- 1 version
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- Publisher
- BBC News England
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 24 Aug 2026, 16:17 UTC
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Bradley Townsend left South Yorkshire in April, telling his family he was going to Romania.
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Briton fighting for Russia killed in Ukraine
Bradley Townsend left South Yorkshire in April, telling his family he was going to Romania.
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- machine language-signal Death or self-harm observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
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- #2061
- Observed
- 24 Aug 2026, 16:55 UTC
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- 200 / parsed
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- 17,615 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
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- metadata and excerpt