❗️ Russian security forces have taken US citizen Daniel Martindale, who was helping Russian forces, out of territory under Ukraine’s control, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️The US citizen, who passed valuable intel to the Russian military, had been in Ukraine since February 11, 2022, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️ US citizen Martindale had been transmitting coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities to the Russian Federation for two years, law enforcement agencies told Sputnik

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⚡️Information from US citizen Martindale was repeatedly used to defeat equipment and personnel of the Ukrainian forces, security agencies told Sputnik

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❗️US citizen Martindale, who helped Russian forces plan strikes against Ukrainian forces, is in Moscow and gave his first press conference at Rossiya Segodnya

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❗️US citizen Daniel Martindale who helped the Russian Armed Forces, says he is in Moscow voluntarily, no one forces him to be here

He also thanked Russian soldiers and special services for the evacuation operation

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💬US only cares about its business interests while Russia fights for justice

The United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict essentially amounts to the US attempting to “contain and to repress Russia” as the latter attempts to be “an equal player in the world,” says Daniel Martindale, the US citizen who helped Russian military by providing valuable intel.

“I see it as a war where one side is fighting for justice and the other side is really just interested in their own financial and business interests, really not interested in wellbeing of their own citizens,” he says.

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❗️US volunteer who aided Russia understood Ukrainian conflict ‘from the perspective of Russian, Ukrainian citizens’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who actively aided Russian forces in the Ukrainian conflict zone by supplying them with valuable intel, said he was able to stay in touch with the Russian side.

“They also helped me to understand the conflict better from the perspective of Russian citizens, Ukrainian citizens, not just what I would see in the Western media,” he adds.

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💬More statements from Daniel Martindale, US citizen who helped the Russian military by providing valuable intel:

▪️If something happens to Martindale's family in the United States, it will be the work of the American authorities

▪️The Kiev regime should be tried like German war criminals

▪️Ukrainians suffer from constant betrayal, they have to fight for themselves and their safety

▪️Ukrainian authorities do not care about the population of Ukraine. Many Ukrainians are waiting for liberation by the Russian Army, but they have to hide it

▪️The soldiers who evacuated him from the special military operation zone acted very professionally, he thanked them

▪️He does not want to return to the United States and considers Washington his enemy

▪️Russia will win the conflict in Ukraine in any case

▪️Washington is fighting in Ukraine against the whole world and its own citizens.

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⚡️Ukrainians are forced to hide their ‘lack of patriotism for Kiev’ and ‘sympathy for Russia’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who aided Russian forces with intel gathering in the Ukrainian conflict zone, says that his efforts to avoid being discovered by the Kiev regime forces likely weren’t much different from “what the Ukrainian citizens today go through in their attempts to wait for the Russian army to free them.”

“Very commonly we were hiding our allegiance or our sympathy for Russia, hiding our real intentions of really waiting for them and hiding our lack of patriotism for Kiev,” he says, referring to the Ukrainians he encountered.

“Everybody in the country, it seems to me that if they had any sympathy for Russia, they were forced to learn how to live like a spy.”

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US citizen who helped Russia in Donbass warns his parents of pressure from US
 
Speaking to his parents, American citizen Daniel Martindale made it clear that he might be pressured by Washington to return to the US and “tell everybody how big a mistake” he made by going to Ukraine.
 

"They would not be above, of course, putting pressure on you to get me to do that," he said.

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❗️If Putin were running in the United States today, I would vote for him - US citizen Martindale

"I find it highly unlikely that I could trust either of the two candidates that are there right now," US citizen Daniel Martindale said, commenting on the upcoming US presidential elections.

"If I happen to try to tell you that one is better than the other, then probably it would just be another opportunity for Western media to accuse Russian media of meddling in their elections. So I definitely won't make any recommendations today," Martindale continued.

"If I happen to be in the United States right now, it definitely would need to be a candidate who is for peace. But he also needs to do that in a way that is in line with my religious views. So he needs to support a traditional family where you have a man, woman, children being brought up to be normal people in a productive society. If Putin were running in the United States today, I would vote for him," he said.

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❗️Martindale praises Russian servicemen who saved him from ‘a lot of danger from Ukrainian drones and artillery’

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who aided Russian forces with intel gathering in the Ukrainian conflict zone, thanked the soldiers of the Russian 29th Army who managed to safely extract him from behind the enemy lines.

“They did everything very professionally. We were in a lot of danger from Ukrainian drones and artillery, but they were able to get me out. Praise God and thanks to them,” he said, also offering praises to “all of the Russian special services who were involved in coordinating the whole effort.”

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💬Ukrainian government is ‘responsible for deaths, murders, torture, for kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people’

There is no other option but to completely disarm the Kiev regime, says Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who aided Russian forces with intel gathering in the Ukrainian conflict zone.

“We have to realize that the Kiev government really is responsible for deaths, murders, torture, for kidnapping of hundreds of thousands of people," he notes.

"And as history shows us, if you don't punish a criminal, he'll continue to do what he's done in the past,” Martindale explains.

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📹 If anything does happen to my family in the near future, it would be the work of the American authorities - US citizen Daniel Martindale

"I think they [his family] are jealous that they didn't have the opportunity to do the same themselves," Martindale said in relation to his going to Donbass.

"I would like it to be proof that if anything does happen to me or my family in the near future, it's not because of any natural causes. It's because the American government probably is very interested at this point in putting pressure on me to reverse my position, to get me to come back to the United States and say that I did everything wrong," he stated.

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❗️US citizen helped ‘preserve the lives of Russian soldiers and future Russian citizens in Ukraine’

“For the last two years I've been involved in doing everything I can to preserve the lives of Russian soldiers and future Russian citizens in Ukraine,” says Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who helped provide valuable intel to the Russian troops in the Ukrainian conflict zone.

“If there is an opportunity to continue doing that, I'd more than welcome it.”

Martindale also suggests that he wants to settle in Russia when the Ukrainian conflict finally ends.

“I would very much love to go back to either farming myself, starting my own family in Russia, or perhaps making farm equipment for the Russian market and perhaps the international market,” he adds.

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⚡️US gov’t is my enemy - Martindale who aided Russia in Donbass on why he rejects US return
 
US citizen Daniel Martindale asserted his reluctance to go back to the US during a press conference with the Russian media.
 

“I definitely don't want to be in the United States. I understand from about 2005 that the United States government is my enemy personally because of the fact that they are responsible for the 9/11 attacks," Martindale said.

 

"When they declare war on their own citizens, that's a cause to go to war with them. So I definitely don't want to be in the United States," he concluded.

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❗️WATCH FULL: US citizen tells why he helps Russian military to liberate Donbass
 
Watch the full press conference with American citizen Daniel Martindale, who was earlier evacuated by Russian special services from the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).
 
According to the DPR Defense Headquarters, Martindale handed “valuable intelligence information to Russia" and played "a key role in preparing the assault on the village of Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledar area."
 
The information allowed the Russian military “to carry out high-precision strikes on the enemy, minimizing damage to civilian infrastructure and civilians,” the DPR Defense Headquarters stressed.
 
The issue of granting him political asylum and obtaining Russian citizenship is currently under consideration.

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