Russell Bentley
Russell Bentley (born 1960), also known as "Texas", is an American man who served in Vostok Battalion and XAH Spetsnaz Battalion in 2014, 2015 and 2017 on the side of the Donetsk People's Republic. He was a YouTuber until his channel was deleted in early 2022. Bentley, a self-declared communist, came to global attention in 2022, with a series of statements, and videos, about his intention to liberate Ukraine from "Nazis". Rolling Stone covered his story under the headline "The Bizarre Story of How a Hardcore Texas Leftist Became a Frontline Putin Propagandist". By July 2016, he had been baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church. See also  

Russian information war against Ukraine

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1960 births
American bloggers
American activists
United States Army soldiers
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pro-Russian people of the war in Donbas
Pro-Russia foreign volunteers in the Russian invasion of Ukraine