The son of a deputy head of the CIA was killed preventing for Russia in Ukraine in 2024, Russian publication Necessary Tales reported in an investigation printed on April 25.
Michael Gloss, 21, was the son of CIA Deputy Director for Digital Innovation Julianne Gallina Gloss, and Iraq battle veteran Larry Gloss.
Earlier than arriving in Russia on August 13, 2023, Gloss was travelling round Europe. On his Vkontakte web page bio, he wrote: "I ran away from dwelling (and) traveled the world. I hate fascism."
Gloss studied Human Ecology at Middlebury School in Vermont and was described as an eco-activist, ladies’s rights supporter, and anti-fascist, Necessary Tales reviews.
He created an Instagram submit with anti-fascist graffiti in March 2023, with the hashtag "finish Ukraine battle."
However regardless of supporting Ukraine at the start of the full-scale battle, he was at a army recruitment middle in Moscow, alongside different overseas nationals, by September 5, 2023, the investigation discovered.
His social media posts present a definite change in his views — one recognized by Necessary Tales as belonging to Gloss recommend he believed in conspiracy theories involving Ukraine, and claimed NATO was an evolution of Adolf Hitler's Nazi social gathering.
Gloss was enlisted in Russia’s 137th Ryazan Airborne Regiment, in accordance with the investigation, which discovered a number of footage and movies of his recruitment course of, in addition to talking to a few of his fellow recruits.
A Russian soldier who served with him stated he was "a staunch supporter of Russia and beloved it."
On April 4, 2024, he was killed, possible throughout a Russian offensive close to Bakhmut. His burial within the U.S. didn’t happen till December 2024, Necessary Tales stated.
Gloss informed his household he was working in Russia to get a Russian passport and get monetary savings for a visit to Africa.
Based on an obituary written by his dad and mom, Gloss "was tragically killed in Japanese Europe," whereas he "was forging his personal hero’s journey together with his noble coronary heart and warrior spirit."
"He wished the world to be a greater place with extra equity, peace and concord with nature," it says.
"In his transient life, he constructed homes in Honduras, he restored buildings in Turkiye destroyed by earthquakes, he labored on farms in Italy studying sustainable agriculture."
The obituary made no point out of Russia or Ukraine.
For the reason that begin of its full-scale invasion, Moscow has relied on numerous strategies to enlist migrants and overseas nationals to offset its heavy battlefield losses whereas avoiding full-scale mobilization.
Stories point out that Russia has recruited people from Nepal, Somalia, India, Cuba, and different nations.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Denisova