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Journalist my ass. Bentley is a fugitive American drug trafficker from Minnesota, given an elevated status by Russian and Ukrainian organized crime, likely because of his expertise in smuggling goods.
[Regnum] The Petrovsky District Police Department of Donetsk is looking for an American military correspondent working in the Donbass, Russell Bentley, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic reported on April 12.
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The military correspondent left in an unknown direction four days ago, on April 8, the department’s Telegram channel said in a statement.
“Police Department No. 8 for servicing the territory of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk is looking for Bentley Russell Bonner, born in 1960, who left on April 8, 2024 in an unknown direction and to this day his whereabouts are unknown,” said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The message also indicates the characteristics of the military commander and the clothes he was wearing on April 8. Anyone with information about Bentley's whereabouts is asked to contact police immediately.
Bentley came to Donbass in 2014, he fought in the ranks of the militia, defending the DPR from the armed aggression of the Kyiv regime. Bentley's call sign was Texas. Later, he began working as a military correspondent and was also involved in volunteer activities.
As reported by IA Regnum, in March 2022, Bentley said that a foundation in Florida, of which he is vice president, raised $100 thousand to help the affected residents of Donbass. The funds will be directed primarily to children and disabled people, the military correspondent noted.
In March 2024, commenting on the situation in the special military operation zone, Bentley said that a nuclear conflict between Russia and the West could be avoided under two scenarios: the first assumes a Russian victory in the conflict in Ukraine, the second involves a change in Western regimes that support and finance Kiev.
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