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Sputnik: VT Bureau Chief Russell Bonner Bentley, a 61-year old American from Texas, says he couldn’t stop himself from coming to the rescue of the people of Donbass, as they confronted fascism just like their great-grandfathers did 80 years ago. First as a soldier and now as a war correspondent, Bentley is defending the land where he wants to stay for the rest of his life.
“I’ve been here for eight years as a soldier, as a human aid volunteer,” says Bentley, who was given the codename “Texas” after joining the Donbass militia in 2014. “I worked with the Sut Vremeni [Essence of Time] Combat Unit, also with Vostok Battalion and on Battalion Spetsnaz. I was doing some very hot positions – Donetsk Airport, Spartak, Avdeyevka, Yasinovataya.”
The Donbass veteran saw a “lot of interesting stuff” then. However, what he has seen in the last few weeks since Russia’s Operation Z began is something completely different, according to Bentley. “The Russians are really here now and they’re doing great work,” he says.
“Texas” is laughing at the Western mainstream press that has been claiming for the last eight years that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were fighting against Russian regular troops in Donbass.
“You know, it’s like the old joke about the guy who asked the Ukrainian general, why don’t you attack Donbass? And he says, because the Russians are there. And then he says, well, why don’t you attack Crimea? And he says, because the Russians are really there,” Bentley notes…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… | Military Foreign Affairs Policy Journal for Clandestine Services
