Russell Bentley
Russell Bonner Bentley III (; 20 June 1960 – 8 April 2024), also known as
Texas (, pronounced in Russian like "Tekhas") and the
Donbass Cowboy, was an American man who served in the
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. He also worked for the Russian state-owned
Sputnik news agency as a
war correspondent. He became a Russian citizen via
naturalization in 2021. Prior to his activities in the Donbas, he was a
marijuana activist and smuggler who was later convicted of drug smuggling and spent five years in prison.
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