Russian Court Sentences 4 Soldiers to Prison for Killing Texan NYT | Top Stories Neil MacFarquhar 9 December 2025 at 06:07 Russell Bonner Bentley III, 64, who was living in the occupied Donbas region of Ukraine, was beaten and tortured to death after he was suspected of being an American saboteur, investigators said. © Brendan HoffmanRussell Bonner Bentley III visiting a memorial to victims of Nazi killings, in Donetsk, Ukraine, in 2017.