Overview
- Major Vitaly Vansyatsky and Lieutenant Andrei Iordanov received 12-year sentences, Sergeant Vladislav Agaltsev got 11 years, and Vladimir Bazhin was sentenced to 1.5 years.
- Vansyatsky, Iordanov, and Agaltsev were stripped of their military ranks, according to the Donetsk Garrison Military Court.
- Investigators said Bentley was tortured to death on April 8, 2024; a car with his body was then detonated, and his remains were later hidden.
- The case was tried in Russian-occupied Donetsk by a Russian-installed military court, which announced the verdicts on Dec. 8.
- Bentley, known as “Texas,” fought with the Vostok battalion, worked as a propagandist including for Sputnik, and had obtained Russian citizenship.