The leader of the Russian private military company Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, claimed a US citizen died in the embattled Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, in a video posted on the Wagner Telegram group
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Nicholas Maimer was in a building in Bakhmut that collapsed after being hit by artillery fire, according to Retired Lt. Col. Perry Blackburn, founder of the non-profit
Free, with which Maimer was working in Ukraine. Ukrainians who were with Maimer believed he was either trapped in the collapsed building or killed by a “barrage” of Russian artillery fire, Blackburn said. “They got in the position that they were, artillery started coming in heavy and the building started to collapse. That’s when most of the Americans and Ukrainians there were able to escape. Unfortunately, Nick was not able to escape,” an American friend of Maimer in Ukraine also told CNN.
Free, he said. Free consists of “a volunteer group of U.S. Special Forces veterans and citizens that perform evacuation operations and humanitarian aid services,” according to the group’s Facebook page. Blackburn told CNN that Maimer and other volunteers with Free focused primarily on providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine rather than picking up weapons to be a part of the fight. That included working on evacuating people from embattled areas, and helping to get things like food, medicine, and uniforms to the troops fighting. But Maimer had also been asked to do an “assessment” of the Territorial Defense Forces’ training, Blackburn said.
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