The British father killed by a drone fighting in Ukraine, the wife says

A British father, who voluntarily said to fight for Ukraine in a war against Russia, has been killed by a drone strike, his wife said.

Stephanie Boys-Ciliums said Elon Robert Williams, 35-year-old, said 35-year-old, Stephanie Boys-Ciliums from Moreton after losing his job despite his family’s arguments and arguments of his family.

He said that fellow fighters approached him that he was killed in a Russian drone attack in the Kharkiv region, adding “it does not seem real” and she was waiting for the official confirmation of her death.

A spokesman for the Foreign Office said that it was “supporting the family of a British person who is missing in Ukraine, and in touch with local authorities”.

Mr. Williams left his wife and his 12 -year -old daughter in Britain on 7 May to travel to Ukraine.

The family said that he lost contact with him after going on a mission on 2 July, and was later reported on 14 July that he was listed as a missing action, and two weeks later a member of his unit confirmed that he had died.

Ms. Boys-Villiams told BBC Radio Mercesis: “I was sitting at home with my oldest son when I got the lesson to say that they had important information and what they could call me so I knew immediately.”

She said that she and others of the family tried to convince her husband not to fight, but she was firm.

“When he told us, we were all destroyed [he was going to fight],” He said.

“We spent time trying to convince him, to tell how it will affect us and how it will affect our daughter, and everything else will return home.

“But he was such a strong man that once he found something in his mind, there was no way that you were changing it.”

“She wanted to help citizens, especially children,” she said.

She said that she was in contact with her every day but when she talked to her for the last time, she knew that something was different.

“I could tell with the tone of his voice when he called me to ask for permission to keep his mother down as an emergency contact,” he had a little more, “he said.

He said that he explained to him in his last lesson: “I want to be straight with you, it is dangerous”.

“Once it passed the three-day mark, which he said that he had originally said that he was going out, I was really checking my phone every day,” said Mushree Boys-Ciliums.

“I told a friend that I want my phone to be ring and for this it has a ringtone, I do not want Ukrainian phone number to be coming on your phone.”