In fresh weeks, the past of the U.S. citizen Daniel Martindale, who, according to “RIA Novosti” and “Kommersant”, spent 2 years in Ukraine providing information on the positions of the Ukrainian army, has been revealed in Russian propaganda media. Martindale himself claims that his goal was to "save the lives of Russian soldiers and guarantee the future of Russians in Ukraine". Currently, as he reported in an interview with the **The Wall Street Journal**, he lives in Moscow under strict protection from Russian peculiar services.
