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.
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We’re better off letting him rot in Russia.
Why in Hell did the US Army give permission for an active duty soldier to visit RUSSIA???
Russian women are always trouble, even when they are not.
Strange, all right. Someone on the radio last night speculated that she was a Russian honey pot who entrapped him.
Russian women.
Ya can’t live with ‘em, and ya can’t live with ‘em.
Anyone know what his MOS is?
Can’t seem to find it.
makes no sense
Is he related to Oswald?
Do as they did in Dune. Declare him dead and move on.
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.
Her surname is ethnically Ukrainian, if that makes any difference.
How does an eight-year old qualify for the military?
Most of us learned that lesson at a very young age...
No Problem.
Biden is going to get him out.
He will exchange him for like 1,000 terrorists leaders.
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