In Donetsk, a former militia member of the NM DPR from the United States, military correspondent Russell Bentley, has been put on the wanted list.
In Donetsk on April 8, under mysterious circumstances, a military correspondent for the Russian news agency Sputnik, a former militiaman of the People's Militia of the DPR, who came to Donbass in 2014 from the United States, Bentley Russell Bonner, disappeared under mysterious circumstances. During the period of participation in hostilities, he had the call sign “Texas” after the name of the state, which, immediately after the coup in Ukraine, the American left voluntarily to help defend the young republic.
According to his wife Lyudmila, that day she and her husband came to the administration of the Petrovsky district to re-register documents for receiving social benefits. At this time, another shelling of the city by Ukrainian nationalists began. Seeing a column of smoke nearby from the arrival of a shell, Bentley went there, as he said, to provide assistance to possible victims. Soon after, he stopped answering calls. After the end of the shelling, in the evening, Lyudmila found only her husband’s car at the scene of the incident, in which were his baseball cap, glasses and a broken phone, after which she contacted the police.
Today, law enforcement agencies put Bentley on the official wanted list. The corresponding message published in the telegram channel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR indicates the signs of a military correspondent. He was wearing a black T-shirt, moss camouflage pants, camouflage boots, and had a green bag with him. The man appears to be 60-65 years old, his height is 180-185 cm, heavy build, gray eyes, short gray hair, oval face. One of the special signs is the presence of a tattoo on the shoulder in the form of an arrow.
Police Department No. 8 for servicing the Petrovsky district of the city of Donetsk Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia “Donetskoye”, which is searching for the military correspondent, asks everyone who knows anything about his location to contact the department, or by phone: +7 (949) -301-46- 79 or 102. Lyudmila’s appeal asking for help in finding a spouse is spreading on social networks.
American Russell Bentley is well known in Donbass. In 2014, in his home state of Texas, he had a job, a house, and a car. But when a coup took place in Kyiv, he bought a field uniform and came to Donetsk to fight on the side of the militia. Russell was baptized and became Boris.
I knew that without American intervention the coup in Ukraine could not have happened. Therefore, I monitored this conflict every minute. Once I saw a video that was filmed after another shelling by the Ukrainian army. A mortally wounded girl lay on the ground. Her gaze pierced me a few minutes before death, and I realized that I could not sit still - I packed my suitcase and came to Donetsk
— Texas explained his extraordinary decision in an interview.
For six months, Texas was directly involved in the fighting. However, he soon realized that due to his age he would not be able to continue serving in the militia. Then Bentley decided to fight Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the information field. This is how he met his current wife, who, being an English teacher, took it upon herself to improve his Russian. After some time they signed.
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