{"id":60082,"date":"2025-12-08T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-jails-soldiers-who-tortured-and-killed-american-who-fought-with-pro-moscow-forces\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:48:42","slug":"russia-jails-soldiers-who-tortured-and-killed-american-who-fought-with-pro-moscow-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/russia-jails-soldiers-who-tortured-and-killed-american-who-fought-with-pro-moscow-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia jails soldiers who tortured and killed American who fought with pro-Moscow forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A court in Russian-controlled <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Ukraine<\/a><\/span> sentenced four Russian soldiers to jail on Monday for the killing of an American communist who had fought with pro-Moscow forces since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow rarely punishes its soldiers in Ukraine for committing crimes, portraying them as national heroes at home.<\/p>\n<p>The court in Russian-held Donetsk found the soldiers guilty of beating Russell Bentley, 64, to death in April 2024, after they mistook him for a U.S. spy. The soldiers put his body in the back of a car and blew it up, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley \u2014 the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/russell-texas-bentley-putin-propaganda-ukraine-interview-1315433\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2022 interview with Rolling Stone magazine<\/a> titled &#8220;The Bizarre Story of How a Hardcore Texas Leftist Became a Frontline Putin propagandist&#8221; \u2014 was a local celebrity in the city of Donetsk, where he lived, and his disappearance sparked outrage.<\/p>\n<p>The self-styled communist \u2014 known as &#8220;Texas&#8221; \u2014 often made social media clips backing Moscow&#8217;s Ukraine campaign, produced content for Russia&#8217;s state-backed media and had fought alongside pro-Russian separatists since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the soldiers, Major Vitaly Vansyatsky and Lieutenant Andrei Iordanov, were sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and stripped of their military titles. Sergeant Vladislav Agaltsev was handed 11 years while another soldier was given 1.5 years for &#8220;concealing crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The court said the troops did not know Bentley and detained him as he prepared to film the consequences of a Ukrainian strike, thinking he was a spy.<\/p>\n<p>It said the soldiers &#8220;reported to their military unit command on the discovery of a saboteur,&#8221; before putting him in a car with a bag on his head, where they &#8220;beat and tortured&#8221; him to &#8220;get a confession&#8221; \u2014 ultimately killing him. They then put his body in the trunk and blew up the car, the court said.<\/p>\n<p>Russian soldiers in Ukraine have long been accused by Kyiv and international rights groups of torturing captives.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley, who served in the U.S. Army in his youth, had been granted Russian nationality and portrayed himself as the only American fighting for Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley used crowdfunding websites to fund his war efforts in Ukraine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-trending-40647061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC News reported<\/a>. In November 2014, he launched a GoFundMe page to finance a &#8220;fact finding mission&#8221; to Donbas, raising $2,000, BBC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, he told Newsweek that he had several times been &#8220;within seconds or inches of death&#8221; but added that: &#8220;I believe in guardian angels because of how lucky I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bentley was affiliated with the Essence of Time movement, a Russia-based communist group which seeks to create &#8220;USSR 2.0,&#8221; according to BBC News. Bentley&#8217;s videos were hosted on the group&#8217;s YouTube page, and in the clips, he encouraged fellow Americans to join him in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC, Bentley said in one video: &#8220;Don&#8217;t show up here broke\u2026 You can do a crowd fundraiser &#8211; a GoFundMe or an Indiegogo. Say you&#8217;re coming here to help. Say you&#8217;re coming here to find the truth. 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