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Michael Gloss
Michael Gloss, who enlisted in the Russian army in 2023, after several months traveling the world, died last year in combat in Ukraine. He is the son of Cia’s deputy director of digital innovation and the director of a company that develops software for the US Department of Defense.
The American citizen Michael Gloss21, son of Cia’s deputy director of digital innovation, Juliane Gallina Glosswas killed in Ukraine while fighting in the Russian army last year, the Russian independent agency said on Friday.
A glossy straw, Larry Glosshe is a US Navy veteran and director of Security Information Systems, a company that develops software for the US Department of Defense.
According to, in 2023, Gloss abandoned the university, spent several months traveling around the world, and enlisted in the Russian armyafter spending several months traveling the world.
On its way, the young man was initially in Italy and Israelwhere it was deported. Passed the next months in Türkiyewhere he worked as a volunteer in Hatay province to help with relief operations after an earthquake.
A friend of gloss who welcomed him in Istanbul told the age of the young man “was always talking about misfortunes and more misfortunes – Poverty, the collapse of civilizations. Was convinced that the western hegemony It was coming to an end and that BRICS would take their place“.
Another known in Türkiye recalled that gloss I had seen videos about Palestine e “I was very angry with the United States. He started thinking about going to Russia. I wanted to fight the US. I think those conspiracy theories videos really affected him. ”
Gloss arrived in Russia in August 2023. Before obtaining the visa, he asked people who knew them to help him get an official invitation to enter the country. Will have given different people different reasons for the trip, including I wanted Learn Russianask for citizenship and who had an environmental project I wanted to accomplish.
According to the border control records analyzed by the statories, gloss entered Russia for Georgia on August 12.
During the following month, Gloss traveled to Vladikavkaz, Taganrog, Volgograd and Moscow. On September 1, he said his visa would expire in a week and, on September 3, was looking for accommodation in Vienna and Bratislava.
However, two days later, on September 5, its name appeared in the Unified System of Military Registration of Russia. The indicated address was a military enlistment office on Yablochkova Street in Moscow, and his “residence” was indicated as MEDICAL EXAMINATION ROOM 302.
According to this, this address It had already been previously used by foreigners moving to Moscow to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defense to fight in the war.
