He never thought the leopards would eat HIS face...
I doubt that that was intentional from a Russian institutional position. Sounds like random low-level Russian soldiers running amok.
It does kind of highlight the fact that the law-and-order situation in the area is probably not great and there are probably a number of soldiers doing a number of unpleasant things to people in the area. Not that that really needed a lot of clarification at this point, but you figure that stuff like this has probably been happening to people in the occupied territories throughout the war. Been years of that by now, and that this one only grabs attention because the guy was a visible media figure working for a major Russian state-run media outlet associated with the war effort...
Just to clarify though, this is the same Russian institution that conscripted soldiers from their prisons - so it's not like the army can act shocked at finding "a few bad apples".
Penal battalions aren't a new idea for anyone, and they rarely get to drive tanks, the problem is far more deeply systemic than that.
Tortured to death by Russians then blown up in a Lada. It's his most effective propaganda for Russian values yet.
That's overkill.
rot in piss and burn in hell
To the vatniks, he was just another “amer”, like the ones ransomware gangs target: soft, fat, stupid, greedy, barely human and deserving only of contempt. For a while he was a useful idiot, gullibly thinking he could be an Orc like them, but once the amusement value wore out, it was time to get rid of him.
Well, vatniks aren't always wrong.
The investigation found that on April 8, Bentley, who was known as the “Donbas Cowboy,” was abducted while filming the aftermath of a Ukrainian artillery strike in Donetsk’s Petrovsky District.
What were the murderers paranoid about?
At the bottom of the article it's speculated that he was mistaken for a spy which is the obvious likely answer. But maybe he fucked the wrong commander's girlfriend, we'll never know.
Womp womp. This is what you get for being loyal to Russia instead of your own country, fucking conservative morons.
What is it about modern American nationalists and capitalists that make them suck so much ass at nationalism and capitalism?
lol
lmao
etc.
Womp womp
"Donbas Cowboy" sounds like text you'd get from an image generator you asked to show you a Texas football team.
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