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By Michael Drummond, foreign news reporter

A British man who flew to Russia to fight alongside Vladimir Putin’s forces in Ukraine has insisted he is “not a terrorist”.

Ben Stimson filmed himself dressed in Russian combat gear and flaunted a grenade apparently looted from Ukrainian forces.

He also posted footage appearing to show foreign fighters walking past dead bodies in the war zone – as well as a road trip out of occupied Mariupol.

“Yes, I’m back in Russia and I’m back in uniform,” he says in one video, insisting that he believes what he is doing is right in another.

It not his first stint in Ukraine, having spent four months in the Donbas region with pro-Russian militia in 2015 – a trip he summed up as “vodka, women and guns”.

Upon his return to the UK he was convicted of a terror offense and jailed for more than five years.

A judge accepted that Stimson did not “actually engage in any fighting” during that time in Ukraine “and had intended to perform humanitarian work”, despite him being pictured holding an AK-47.

Now, it seems, Stimson is back with Russian forces once again.

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