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Today, Mr. Nance is involved in a messy, distracting power struggle. Often, that plays out on Twitter, where Mr. Nance taunted one former ally as “fat” and an associate of “a verified con artist.”
He accused a pro-Ukraine fund-raising group of fraud, providing no evidence. After arguing with two Legion administrators, Mr. Nance wrote a “counterintelligence” report trying to get them fired. Central to that report is an accusation that one Legion official, Emese Abigail Fayk, fraudulently tried to buy a house on an Australian reality TV show with money she didn’t have. He labeled her “a potential Russian spy,” offering no evidence. Ms. Fayk denied the accusations and remains with the Legion.

Mr. Nance said that as a member of the Legion with an intelligence background, when he developed concerns, he “felt an obligation to report this to Ukrainian counterintelligence.”
The dispute goes to the heart of who can be trusted to speak for and raise money for the Legion.
Mr. Nance has left Ukraine but continues fund-raising with a new group of allies. One of them, Ben Lackey, is a former Legion member. He told his fellow volunteers that he was once a Marine and wrote on LinkedIn that he had most recently been an assistant manager at LongHorn Steakhouse. In fact, the Pentagon said he had no military experience (and he worked as a server, the steakhouse said).
In an interview, Mr. Lackey said that he lied about being a U.S. Marine so he could join the Legion.

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Today, Mr. Nance is involved in a messy, distracting power struggle. Often, that plays out on Twitter, where Mr. Nance taunted one former ally as “fat” and an associate of “a verified con artist.”
He accused a pro-Ukraine fund-raising group of fraud, providing no evidence. After arguing with two Legion administrators, Mr. Nance wrote a “counterintelligence” report trying to get them fired. Central to that report is an accusation that one Legion official, Emese Abigail Fayk, fraudulently tried to buy a house on an Australian reality TV show with money she didn’t have. He labeled her “a potential Russian spy,” offering no evidence. Ms. Fayk denied the accusations and remains with the Legion.

Mr. Nance said that as a member of the Legion with an intelligence background, when he developed concerns, he “felt an obligation to report this to Ukrainian counterintelligence.”
The dispute goes to the heart of who can be trusted to speak for and raise money for the Legion.
Mr. Nance has left Ukraine but continues fund-raising with a new group of allies. One of them, Ben Lackey, is a former Legion member. He told his fellow volunteers that he was once a Marine and wrote on LinkedIn that he had most recently been an assistant manager at LongHorn Steakhouse. In fact, the Pentagon said he had no military experience (and he worked as a server, the steakhouse said).
In an interview, Mr. Lackey said that he lied about being a U.S. Marine so he could join the Legion.

Who are the violent prisoners being offered pardons for fighting with the Wagner Group in Ukraine?

Ukraine: Impacts of Invasion

Bellingcat and Scripps News explore the human costs of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the war that continues to rage in eastern Europe

The War Archive is a unified database of video and audio materials about the war in Ukraine. We preserve and organize the military chronicle. Millions of people have become victims and witnesses of numerous crimes. With the simplest means of documentation, we can make these crimes visible and punish the perpetrators. And also to tell the world about what it is like to live during the war.

Malcolm Nance, is not an idealist like the end of the article suggest, Malcolm Nance is a grifter, someone that consistently lied and exaggerated his own track record to reach places he does not belong to.

That includes Ukraine.

And no, not even 80K "donations" should allow Malcolm Nance to pontificate on Ukraine as if he has any of the expertise he claims to have.

But I guess the American public will have its appetite with a good storyteller, without even realizing Ukrainian People are telling their own story, and they just need to be actually listened, to have real stories about the War in Ukraine told by the very first people concerned : the Ukrainian People.

The US media is not making any effort, not even a little, to cover the war against Ukraine properly, even tho, I'm not sure ANY war in the past have had this amount of extensive open investigation done in real time like it's happening on Twitter and Twitter Spaces, one thing is clear, Legacy media is absolutely inept.

If Ukraine is still in the News Cycle it's because people, citizens are maintaining the pressure and lobbying their governments to help Ukraine, if it wasn't for that, the US would have forgotten Ukraine in the first week of the war.

Yet other, now public, information suggests that Girkin was taking orders from an FSB officer while in Ukraine. Intercepted telephone conversations released by the Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (tasked with investigating the MH17 downing) indicate that in the summer of 2014 Girkin took orders from ‘Vladimir Ivanovich’, the pseudonym of a curator of the separatists whom Bellingcat and partners later identified as Colonel General Andrey Burlaka – at the time the Chief of the Operational Staff of the FSB’s Border Service. Furthermore, a leaked draft letter from Burlaka to FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov from July 2014 shows him requesting a fake Russian passport for an unknown DNR leader living in the occupied-areas. As mentioned in previous reporting on Burlaka, Bellingcat was unable to independently authenticate the leaked document nor establish whether it was sent – although it did appear to include non-public information and reference several real email addresses.