Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
Note: Bentley was a convicted American drug smuggler, originally from Minnesota.
Text taken from the V Kontakte page of Informant.
[VK] The Investigative Committee has completed the preliminary investigation into the murder of Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley.
According to investigators, on April 8, 2024, in Donetsk, servicemen Vansyatsky, Agaltsev and Iordanov used physical violence and torture against him, resulting in his death. On the same day, Vansyatsky and Agaltsev blew up a VAZ 2115 car
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with his body with a TNT block.
On April 9, 2024, on the instructions of Vansyatsky, a serviceman of the same military unit, Bazhin, committed concealment of a particularly serious crime by moving Bentley's remains from the scene of the incident.
It is too early to talk about the trial date while the accused are familiarizing themselves with the materials of the criminal case. According to the law, the case will then be transferred to the prosecutor's office for approval of the indictment and sending to court.
▫Russell Bentley is a 64-year-old American who fought on the side of the DPR. He was a war correspondent. He is married to a Russian. According to her, on the afternoon of April 8, she and her husband came "on personal business" to the executive committee of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk, where the couple had lived for the past several years. At that moment, shelling from the Ukrainian Armed Forces began.
Russell was said to have gone to help the wounded, after which he disappeared. At the same time, the war correspondent's white Niva, which was parked near the motor pool, disappeared.
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