Nick Maimer, 45, who had been training civilian volunteers in Ukraine’s ongoing effort to defend its borders, died when a Russian artillery shell destroyed a building where he was positioned in Bakhmut. American killed in Ukraine is retired Green Beret:
A retired U.S. military veteran from Idaho helping Ukraine combat Russia’s invasion is believed to have been killed on the front lines in eastern Ukraine.
A video posted Tuesday by a pro-Russian military blogger on Telegram shows Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Russian private military company Wagner, surveying a body in what appears to be Bakhmut,Blackburn and Maimer’s uncle, Paul Maimer, each identified the body in the video as Maimer’s, they told the Statesman on Tuesday.
“We are aware of the reports of the death of a U.S. citizen in Bakhmut and are seeking additional information,” a State Department official said. “Our ability to verify reports of deaths of U.S. citizens in Ukraine is extremely limited. We offer our condolences to the families of all whose lives have been lost as a result of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine.”
Just two months before Russia invaded Ukraine, Maimer moved to Spain to teach English, he said. After Russia invaded — what President Vladimir Putin has continued to call a “special military operation” in its neighbor state — Maimer told the Statesman he felt compelled to join the effort to uphold democracy. He had his family ship his combat gear to Poland, Maimer said.
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