A former US marine overseeing the mission he was killed on said the British national from Bristol, whose callsign was “Alfie”, had been in Ukraine for about six months. He told The i Paper: “Luke had conducted a successful ambush and assault mission against Russian forces in the area. “‘Alfie was an assaulter on an assault team, a specialised team. Former British Army soldier James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, was captured fighting inside Russia’s Kursk province last November and sentenced to 19 years in prison. A second British national captured on the battlefield, Hayden Davis, who served in the Royal Regiment of Scots, is also being held by Russia.