Earlier, a Russian official said Vladimir Putin's forces had killed an American who was volunteering to defend Ukraine.
Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of Russia's far eastern Primorsky Krai region, said on his Telegram channel that volunteers from Primorsky"Tiger" Detachment had killed a 24-year-old American man in combat."An American mercenary has been destroyed in Ukraine. And this is in the first clash literally immediately after arriving at the front line!" wrote Kozhemyako.
He added that a group of trained foreign mercenaries fighting for Ukraine's armed forces approached the"Tiger" volunteers, but that the Russian volunteers"did not flinch and repulsed the attack." A Ukrainian officer stands in front of a French self-propelled 155 mm/52-calibre gun Caesar at a front line in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on June 15, 2022. There are reports that an American volunteer has been killed in the fighting in Ukraine.The regional governor didn't specify when or where in Ukraine the American was allegedly killed, but shared images that purportedly show his U.S. passport and a Ukrainian military card.
The documents shared by Kozhemyako said that the man was born in Tennessee and that he had enrolled withOther images circulating online indicated that he was a"marksman" or a"shooter."has been unable to independently verify the authenticity of the images, and has reached out to the U.S. Department of Defense as well as Russian and Ukrainian authorities for comment.
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