The American citizen informed about the key infrastructure of Ukraine to Moscow

reported by Mehr News Agency According to Ryanovsti news agency, an American citizen who was removed from eastern Ukraine by Russian special forces after helping the Kremlin to target Kiev forces, said in Moscow on Saturday that he applied for Russian citizenship. is.

Russian state media reported that he said in a press conference: My name is Daniel Martindale.

He said in English: This is my passport. He went through the war with me, you can see what happened.

According to the Reuters news agency, he said that he was not under any coercion and wanted to receive Russian citizenship and predicted that Moscow would win the war in Ukraine.

“Daniel Martindale” said that he entered Ukraine from Poland in early 2022; Just a few days before Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered to send his troops to Ukraine.

He said: I wanted to go to Russia for a long time, I realized that this is the moment I was waiting for. For the past two years, I have done everything I could to save the lives of Russian soldiers.

An anonymous Russian intelligence source, quoted by the Riannosti news agency, said that Martindale provided Russian forces with information on the location of key Ukrainian infrastructure for 2 years.

Further details about the information he gave to Russia have not been released.

Martindale said that while he was in Ukraine, he communicated with pro-Russian forces and passed on information about the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine to them.

Izvestia newspaper reported that Russian forces even delivered a phone to him by drone.