Lithuanian Mikus Alps, who fought in the 8th battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, has been found dead in a burnt-out car on the British island of Guernsey, the battalion has reported.

"We have a loss... A soldier of the 8th separate battalion of the Ukrainian Volunteer Army, friend Mikus Alps, who was a volunteer in the battalion for the last two years, has been killed in the center of Europe, on the British island of Guernsey. They tortured, killed him, tied him up and burned him in a car, which Mikus was driving for the military needs of the battalion," the battalion said in a report on its Facebook page on Saturday, January 13.

Ukrainian friends of the volunteer, who handed over used cars to volunteers, say that he was burned alive in the car, Ukraine's TSN television news service reported.

The report notes that in Guernsey, Alps had a small business for the utilization of cars. According to his Ukrainian friends, the volunteer received many threats.

Alps had to drive another car to Ukraine. He asked his friends to meet him at the border, as he feared for his life.

"They killed him demonstratively, tying him up in a car and burning him alive. They wrote to him on his page and called him. They said that if he did not stop helping the Ukrainian army and us, he would be killed. Such threatening messages are sent not only to him, but also to friends from Latvia," Alps' friend, volunteer Oleh Nazarenko, said.

According to a local police report, the car completely burnt out before firefighters arrived.