Russell Bentley is a former American soldier and current war correspondent in Donetsk, which is a city in Donbas (a region in eastern Ukraine).
He has been on show multiple times, including after Russia effectively won the war (a conversation to which I recommend listening).
Our short film
Russell and his wife recorded a few videos of their daily life in Ukraine, which I combined into a 10-minute video.
It’s raw and honest, giving an insight most Westerners won’t appreciate due to sustained propaganda and mass censorship across mainstream media.
The United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis.
John Mearsheimer
Death
Russell and I spoke relatively often, especially during the Russian ‘invasion‘, and he updated me on Donetsk with insights ignored by Western journalists.
I was saddened to hear of his death.
Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russia Today news channel and a close confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on April 19 that Bentley, known as “Texas”, died in Donetsk fighting “for our people”, in an announcement made on X.
Aljazeera
Meanwhile, the Vostok Batallion, of which Bentley was a member, carried on Telegram a statement forwarded by the deputy head of the Russian Guard in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic, Alexander Khodakovsky, saying that “those who killed Russell Bentley” be dealt with “exemplary punishment”.
