Found something surfing randomly about Bentley's untimely demise.

KYIV Post

Moscow's US Propagandist 'Donbas Cowboy' Was Killed by Russian Troops
The preliminary investigation by Russia's Investigative Committee accused four Russian servicemen of the kidnap and murder of the American Russell Bentley, a Russian "war correspondent."

by Kyiv Post | September 20, 2024, 2:06 pm
Moscow's US Propagandist 'Donbas Cowboy' Was Killed by Russian Troops
Russell Bentley pictured in Ukraine in May 2022. Photo: sputnik
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The Russian state news agency TASS reported on Friday that the Main Military Investigative Department of Moscow's Investigative Committee confirmed that four Russian servicemen have been charged in connection with the kidnap, torture and murder of the American Russell Bentley in April, while he worked for the Spunik propaganda outlet in the Donbas region.

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.

 It is alleged that three Russian servicemen Vitaly Vansyatsky, Vladislav Agaltsov and Andrey Iordanov, a tank crew from Moscow's 5th Zakharchenko Brigade violently kidnapped Bentley, took him to an unidentified location where they interrogated and tortured him which, in the words of the committees indictment involved "actions that clearly went beyond their authority and which through negligence resulted in the death of the victim."

Do I not understand the story? So this guy was a claimed Russian propagandist, the Russians maybe decided they didn't like his press for them so they offed him? He knew about Russian atrocities maybe, and was about to turn coat? Anyway, first time I've seen anything related to this guy in wanderings among the mainstream press.