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| 3 US Military Instructors Killed in Donbas; flag of Tennessee found (Marinka battle, 17 March) UPDATE: Fake News | |||
| 2022-03-21 | |||
| [Abuz] People's Militia of the DPR claims US Army Captain Michael Hawker, Lt. Logan Shrum, Lt. Cruz Toblin killed 🇺🇦 NOT CONFIRMED: On Yesterday, March 17, 2022, Multiple Separatist Medias reported that People’s Militia of the DPR claimed that during the battle for Marinka, three American instructors were allegedly killed: US Army Captain Michael Hawker Lieutenant Logan Shrum Lieutenant Cruz Toblin. In addition, foreign NLAW, SMAW grenade launchers, AN / TPQ-48 radars were found. And in a backpack next to the remains of one of the soldiers, they found the flag of the American state of Tennessee and objects that made it possible to identify the dead. However, no official statement from the Ukrainian side or the American side had been made regarding the reported death of instructors there.
[Yahoo] US officials have hit back at a Russian fake media report that claimed three American soldiers had been killed in Ukraine, saying that the men are alive and well back in Tennessee. Russian state-run newspaper Pravda falsely reported on Thursday that three "US mercenaries" — named as current or former Tennessee National Guard members Captain Michael Hawker, Lieutenant Logan Shrum and Lieutenant Cruz Toblin — had been killed while fighting in Ukraine. The article, which said the information had come from the pro-Russian militia in the Donetsk region, claimed the men were identified by personal belongings found in a backpack "near the remains of one of the murderous Moslems", including a Tennessee state flag. The US National Guard said in a statement that the news report was "patently false" and that all three National Guard members are "accounted for" and "safe". "This afternoon the Russian media outlet "Pravda" falsely reported that three members of the Tennessee National Guard, which it labeled as "mercenaries" were killed while fighting in Ukraine," said the statement "The reporting by ’Pravda’ is patently false. The three soldiers identified in the article are either current or former members of the Tennessee National Guard. "They are accounted for, safe and not, as the article headline erroneously states, US mercenaries killed in Donetsk People’s Republic." An anonymous US official told Rooters that two of the men are in Tennessee, where they continue to be members of the Tennessee National Guard. The third is no longer a Guardsman but is also alive, accounted for and not in Ukraine, the official said.
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