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The Russian bounty program was an alleged project of Russian military intelligence to pay bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American and other allied service members during the war in Afghanistan. The existence of the alleged program was reported in the media in 2020 and became an issue in the 2020 presidential election campaign.
"The American Civil War Through the Eyes of A Russian Diplomat" American Historical Review 26#3 (1921), pp. 454–463 online, about ambassador Stoeckl Jensen, Oliver, ed. America and Russia - A Century and a Half of Dramatic Encounters (1962) 12 popular essays by experts published in American Heritage magazine online
On 31 March, Oleksiy Tsybko, a rugby union player, was killed by Russian forces. [134] On 2 April, the Prosecutor General's office announced the death of photographer Maks Levin due to Russian small-arms fire outside Kyiv. He had disappeared on 13 March. [135] On 28 April, Vira Hyrych, a journalist, was killed by Russian shelling in Kyiv. [136]
Russell Bonner Bentley III (Russian: Рассел Бентли, romanized: Rassel Bentli; 20 June 1960 – 8 April 2024), also known as Texas (Russian: Техас, 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.
The entire Kapkanets family were killed in their home in the Donetsk region in October last year by Anton Sopov, 21, and Stanislav Rau, 28, prosecutors said. Among the victims were two children ...
After 1880, repeated anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia alienated American elite and public opinion. In 1903, the Kishinev pogrom killed 47 Jews, injured 400, and left 10,000 homeless and dependent on relief. American Jews began large-scale organized financial help and assisted in emigration.
One person was killed by Russian shelling in Kherson Oblast. [497] One person was killed in a separate attack in Donetsk Oblast. [498] New Zealand pledged $26 million in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, including for the training of soldiers and the procurement of weapons and ammunition. [499]
The enemy, meanwhile, fought to kill, mostly with the wars’ most feared and deadly weapon, the improvised explosive device. American troops trying to help Iraqis and Afghans were being killed and maimed, usually with nowhere to return fire. When the enemy did appear, it it was hard to sort out combatant from civilian, or child.