Four Russian soldiers charged with killing US citizen

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Four Russian soldiers charged with ******** US citizen

Four Russian soldiers have been charged by the Kremlin with ******** a US citizen.

Russell Bentley, 64, who

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, was tortured and murdered by Russian servicemen, Kremlin investigators said on Friday.

Bentley, a self-described ********** from Dallas, Texas, went missing in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in April and was later found *****.

Nicknamed “Texas”, he regularly appeared on pro-Kremlin social media channels, backing

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Russia’s Investigative Committee, which looks into major *******, identified the suspects as Russian Armed Forces servicemen Vitaly Vansyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsev, Vladimir Bazhin and Andrei Iordanov.

It is a rare instance of Russia accusing

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– who are glorified at home – of committing *******.

According to investigators, three of the men tortured Bentley on April 8, leading to his ******. Vansyatsky and Agaltsev then allegedly blew up a car with Bentley’s body inside and ordered Bazhin to conceal the ********.

The men face charges including ****** of power resulting in ******, desecration and concealment of a body.

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The Donetsk region of Ukraine has been the subject of fierce fighting – ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

The motive behind Bentley’s ******* is not known, but allies of the deceased soldier have speculated that he may have been mistaken for a spy. Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, previously claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.

She had issued

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to help find her husband’s ********.

Following Bentley’s ******, the Vostok Battalion, of which he was a member, released a statement on Telegram calling for “those who ******* Russell Bentley” to be handed an “exemplary punishment”.

Bentley was a long-time supporter of the Kremlin, having joined pro-Russia separatists in 2014 to ****** against Ukrainian forces following the occupation of Crimea.

He fought for the Donetsk-based Vostok battalion between 2014 and 2017 and became a Russian citizen in 2021.

Bentley is understood to have served in the US military as a young ****** before returning to civilian life and mounting a third-party bid for the Senate in Minnesota.

He is believed to have served time in prison in the US for trafficking cannabis.

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