A yachter for this former owner of an A list soccer team met this week with an owner of a much smaller foreign club  based on one of the smallest nations on the planet, who has ties to the military in the country from which they both come.

There could have been others there, but the yachter only knows about the pair.

Overthrow?

Roman Abramovich
Soccer team: Chelsea

Dmitry Rybolovlev

Smaller foreign club: AS Monaco FC – Monaco

Has ties to: Russia

Exclusive: Roman Abramovich negotiated release of Brit jailed by Russian separatists in Ukraine

One of the British men detained by Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has revealed that Roman Abramovich helped negotiate their release.

The five British men boarded a BA flight from King Khalid International Airport, Saudi shortly at 12.35am on Thursday on their way to Heathrow to be questioned by UK government officials before being allowed to meet their families. They had been released by their Russian captors on Wednesday morning.

One passenger on the flight, engineer Alec Pettet, said he spoke to the men after hearing one of them had been shot while in Ukraine.

Mr Pettet said the five Britons were seated together and looked exhausted following their ordeal but remained in good spirits and were happy to chat with other passengers.

Mr Pettet explained: “It was very obviously a huge relief to be on a BA flight and on the way back to the UK after what they’d been through.

“They were all pretty tired and they said they’d been badly beaten by Donbass rebels and the Russian secret police, but still, they made it out and were able to tell their story.

“One of the men, Andrew Hill, said that Roman Abramovich had helped secure their safety as part of a group involved in negotiating their release. He didn’t know much more about it but he was very grateful. – Source

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