American military personnel may have been killed in a Russian strike on U.S-supplied Patriot air defense systems supplied to Ukraine, according to a Moscow-aligned lawmaker in comments reported by Kremlin-backed media....CONTINUE READING
Mikhail Sheremet, a State Duma deputy from the occupied Crimean region, told state news agency RIA Novosti that two Patriot air defense systems had been targeted by the Russian army in the Donetsk region.
“During the destruction of the Patriot air defense system, U.S. military members also may have been killed.” The lawmaker’s claims about U.S. personnel being on the ground in the war, which the U.S. has taken pains not to be directly involved in, have not been independently verified. No further evidence was presented for the claims.
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