Widow of Texas Man Killed in Eastern Ukraine Asks Putin to Find His Remains

Earlier DU threads:
• Russell Bentley, Texan pro-Putin fighter and Russian propagandist found decapitated in Russian-controlled Donetsk
• Pro-Russian American killed in Donetsk.

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Source: Daily Beast

Widow of Texas Man Killed in Eastern Ukraine Asks Putin to Find His Remains

“I know that his remains have been seen. But then I’m told that there are no remains. How is that?”

Allison Quinn
News Editor
Published Apr. 24, 2024 11:28AM EDT

The widow of a Texas man who spent years aiding Russia’s war against Ukraine only to apparently get murdered by Russian troops is now appealing directly to Vladimir Putin to find his mutilated remains.

Lyudmila Bentley, the wife of Dallas native turned Putin fanboy Russell Bentley, appeared in a new video Wednesday in which she speaks in front of a flag of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the unrecognized territory in eastern Ukraine where Bentley first joined forces with Russian proxies back in 2014.

Bentley, who obtained Russian citizenship in 2020 and had been working closely with Kremlin-controlled media, was “abducted” earlier this month by Russian troops and later reported dead by local officials and the battalion with which he’d fought. RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan also confirmed his death, without providing details on how he died. Unconfirmed reports circulated among Russian military bloggers suggested Bentley had suffered a gruesome death at the hands of Russian troops who mistook him for a spy.

His wife says she hasn’t yet seen his remains, or even proof of his death.

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Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/widow-of-slain-texas-man-russell-bentley-asks-putin-to-find-his-body

Alternate link: https://news.yahoo.com/widow-texas-man-killed-eastern-152838352.html