The Russian Federation confirmed that the military from the United States Russell Bentley was tortured to death by Russian soldiers

Investigative Committee of Russia established persons of servicemen of the Russian Federation, who before his death was beaten and tortured in the Donbass of a warrior from the United States, who managed to fight on the side of the Russian Federation, Russell Bentley with the call sign "Texas". This was reported on the website of the department.

It is noted that the investigation of the criminal case against the servicemen of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vitaliy Vanyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, Vladimir Bazhin and Andriy Yordanov. The investigation found that on April 8, 2024, in the occupied Donetsk, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev and Jordan, applied physical violence and torture to the American that caused his death. On the same day, Vansyatsky and Agaltsev blew up the TNT checker VAZ 2115 with Russell Bentley's body.

On April 9, 2024, at the instructions of Vansyatsky, a soldier of the same military unit, the Bazhin tried to move Bentley's remains from the scene. Russell Bentley with the Texas call sign has participated in the fighting in the Donbass since 2014. The man was 64, he was born in Texas, where he worked as a logger for many years. In America, he was in prison for marijuana trade.

Bentley attracted the attention of the world public in 2022 by a series of applications and videos about his intention to "free Ukraine from the Nazis. " He decided to accept Orthodoxy and join the ranks of the so -called "DNR militia". While in the occupied Donetsk region, he married a Russian teacher. The occupier disappeared on April 8 during the shelling of Donetsk. Later, his car was found, and it has a baseball glass, glasses and a broken phone.