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The TikTok Trail Of The U.S. Soldier Arrested In Russia Left By His Russian 'Wife'
Radio Free Europe ^ | May 07, 2024 | Carl Schreck

Posted on 05/07/2024 8:25:16 AM PDT by McGruff

Glimpses of the life of a U.S. soldier arrested in Russia on theft charges were visible in multiple TikTok videos posted by a Russian woman who identified the American serviceman as her “husband.”

A court spokeswoman in the Russian Far East city of Vladivostok said on May 7 that U.S. Staff Sergeant Gordon Black was arrested five days earlier on charges of "theft causing significant damage to a citizen."

The U.S. Army has confirmed that Russia arrested an American soldier on May 2 but did not publicly identify him.

The Associated Press, meanwhile, cited several unidentified U.S. officials as saying that Black had been charged with stealing from his longtime girlfriend, with whom he previously had a relationship while he was stationed in South Korea.

RFE/RL found a TikTok account of Black’s romantic partner, Vladivostok native Aleksandra Vashchuk, who posted numerous videos of the couple together in South Korea, including at least one showing Black in his U.S. Army fatigues.

Most of the videos of the couple together in 2022 and 2023 appear to have been shot in South Korea, where Vashchuk says on TikTok that she had lived for more than five years.

Black had been stationed in South Korea and had been set to return to Texas but instead traveled to Russia, according to U.S. officials.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
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Strange story.
1 posted on 05/07/2024 8:25:16 AM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 05/07/2024 8:27:07 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

We’re better off letting him rot in Russia.


3 posted on 05/07/2024 8:29:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: McGruff

Why in Hell did the US Army give permission for an active duty soldier to visit RUSSIA???


4 posted on 05/07/2024 8:30:04 AM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: McGruff

Russian women are always trouble, even when they are not.


5 posted on 05/07/2024 8:30:14 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: McGruff

Strange, all right. Someone on the radio last night speculated that she was a Russian honey pot who entrapped him.


6 posted on 05/07/2024 8:39:57 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: McGruff

Russian women.

Ya can’t live with ‘em, and ya can’t live with ‘em.


7 posted on 05/07/2024 8:40:35 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam. sic semper tyrannis.)
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To: McGruff

Anyone know what his MOS is?

Can’t seem to find it.


8 posted on 05/07/2024 8:43:13 AM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: MeganC
Why in Hell did the US Army give permission for an active duty soldier to visit RUSSIA???

makes no sense

9 posted on 05/07/2024 8:45:30 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: McGruff

Is he related to Oswald?


10 posted on 05/07/2024 8:46:05 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: dfwgator

Do as they did in Dune. Declare him dead and move on.


11 posted on 05/07/2024 8:51:03 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: 1Old Pro

I don’t understand it either. Either he went without permission, or the military doesn’t care. The way things are now, the latter wouldn’t surprise me at all.


12 posted on 05/07/2024 8:54:54 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: AppyPappy

Her surname is ethnically Ukrainian, if that makes any difference.


13 posted on 05/07/2024 9:02:44 AM PDT by Parity
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To: McGruff

How does an eight-year old qualify for the military?


14 posted on 05/07/2024 9:04:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: AppyPappy
"Russian women are always trouble, even when they are not."

Most of us learned that lesson at a very young age...


15 posted on 05/07/2024 9:20:27 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: McGruff

No Problem.
Biden is going to get him out.
He will exchange him for like 1,000 terrorists leaders.


16 posted on 05/07/2024 9:38:49 AM PDT by AZJeep
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