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Russell Bentley, 64, reported killed in Moscow-occupied Donetsk by Russian state media and confirmed by his battalion
A US citizen known to have fought with pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine between 2014 and 2017 has been killed in Moscow-occupied Donetsk, according to Russian media reports.
Russia-installed authorities in eastern Ukraine had earlier this month reported the American – 64-year-old Russell Bentley – as missing.
“Russell Bentley, known as ‘Texas’, a real American, truly from Texas, was killed in Donetsk,” Margarita Simonyan, head of the pro-Kremlin RT TV channel, said on social media.
That’s because anyone in Russia who isn’t a “pure” Russian is treated with suspicion and/or derision. This guy included.
It’s a real police state. They make everyone a suspect and an informer.
Do you report what you know, or wait for your neighbor to report you for not reporting what you knew?
It’s Kafkaesque, and he came to a fitting end: “like a dog.”