Hey, everyone, this is moderate rebels.

I'm Ben Norton, joined by my co-host, Max Blumenthal.

And today we're going to talk about the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

And when I say Ukraine, of course, I also mean NATO, the European Union, and the United States.

We've seen that the Joe Biden administration has continued a

very hawkish line against Russia and has been really aggressively pushing in Ukraine. And it looks

like the war might be heating up once again. And to talk about that conflict and the heating up of the

war, we are joined today by Russell, Texas Bentley.

Russell Bentley is an American who in 2014 moved to Dynetsk, the Dynetsk People's Republic

in eastern Ukraine, and he has been on literally on the front lines of the conflict, the proxy war going on there.

Russell has a YouTube channel in which he has posted videos of what life is like there in the

Donbass region.

For those who are just listening and not watching, here we are playing some of his video clips.

Hey, my name is Russell Bentley.

My soldier name is Tejas.

We're starting a new program with the Sudvermany Information Unit.

It's going to be called Dombas with Tejas.

This position we're at today, our first program,

the little town of Spartak, near the airport,

just north and east of Dornetsk City.

This is one of my old positions called Blizna,

means fish hook, it's a hot position.

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