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US Citizen Who Helped Russian Military Plan Attacks on Ukraine Forces Gives First Press Conference

Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik.

US citizen Martindale, who helped Russian forces plan strikes against Ukrainian forces, is in Moscow and gives his first press conference at Rossiya Segodnya news agency.

“On October 27, 2024, Russian servicemen performing combat missions near the village of Bogoyavlenka took out of the combat zone and delivered to Donetsk a US citizen Daniel Martindale,” the agency's interlocutor said.

The American, who passed valuable information to the Russian military, has been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik.

Martindale stated that he is in Moscow voluntarily and showed documents, adding that he initially came to Ukraine from Poland on February 11, 2022, where he was a missionary, and wanted to get to Donetsk.

He also added that his US passport helped him get through Kiev and Kramatorsk and tanked Russian security services for coordinating the operation of his evacuation.

Martindale stated that the Kiev regime is responsible for kidnapping and should be completely disarmed, while noting that Kiev is responsible for the death, murder, torture, kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people.

He further noticed that the Kiev authorities should be tried like German war criminals and called for organizing a tribunal against them.

The DPR defense headquarters reported in late October that the American played a key role in preparing the assault on the village of Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledar area. It was reported that the issue of granting him political asylum and his accession to Russian citizenship was being resolved.

“At the same time, having proactively established contact with Russian security forces, he for two years reported the coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities,” indicated the security forces. The information received from Martindale was repeatedly used to inflict fire damage on the infrastructure, equipment, personnel of the Ukrainian forces, the law enforcers emphasized.