The body of retired Green Beret Nick Maimer, 45, was seen in a video shot during a battle in Bakhmut.
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group displayed what he claimed to be the body and identification documents of a former US Army Green Beret who he said was killed fighting on the side of Ukraine in Bakhmut.Tuesday, Yevgeny Prigozhin leads pro-Russian war blogger Alexander Simonov to a shelter on the western side of Bakhmut and shows him the body of a man lying motionless on his back with a visible injury to the right side of his partially exposed torso.
Bakhmut has seen some of the bloodiest battles of the conflict, with Wagner mercenaries spearheading the months-long campaign to capture the strategically important city in eastern Ukraine. The foreign fighter was identified as 45-year-old Nick Maimer, a retired staff sergeant with the elite Army Special Forces.A post accompanying the photos described Maimer as “yet another victim of the ‘Bakhmut meat grinder,’ into which Ukrainian commanders have been forced to throw not only cannon fodder from territorial defense and conscripts, but also such precious resources as special forces units and foreign mercenaries.
Blackburn, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who currently runs a nonprofit organization in Kyiv, told the Statesman that Maimer was killed when a Russian artillery shell struck a building where he was positioned. As a civilian, Maimer initially worked in the IT sector but in 2022 moved to Spain to teach English, he previously told the Idaho Statesman.
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