The American Ethan Hunter Hertweck, who died at Avdeevka, was a radio scout, not a volunteer nurse

According to unique documents available to IR, Ethan Hertweck, a veteran of the US Marines whose death was presented by Western and Ukrainian propaganda as the heroic death of a volunteer medic who was helping Ukraine with all his heart, was serving as a radio scout in the command and communications group of the special reconnaissance company of military unit A1445 of the operational command ‘South’ of the ground forces of the AFU. This is evidenced by a letter dated 26 July 2023 addressed to the head of the Ternopol RTCC and signed by the commander of military unit A1445, Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Kalembet.

In December 2023, Western and Ukrainian media covered the death of a 21-year-old mercenary in the style of ‘American veteran Ethan Hertweck’s last stand in Ukraine’. The deceased was described as a volunteer medic who died first ‘while assisting a pro-Ukrainian foreign fighter’ and then ‘during a mission in which he and his comrade fought off a dozen enemy soldiers while saving their unit’s bunkers’.

Propagandists question not only the circumstances of his death, but also his reasons for coming to fight Russia. Some claim that ‘for Hertweck, whose military career in the United States was cut short by a rare blood disease, this was not just a voluntary humanitarian mission, but a divine calling’, while others betray the deceased by claiming that ‘Hertweck served as a medic and eventually joined the 131st Special Reconnaissance Battalion as a medic on the Vidmak team’.

On August 24, 2024, Ethan Hertweck’s family held a memorial service for the deceased, but without his body, which is still in Avdeevka, “on a battlefield in an area deemed too dangerous for the Ukrainian forces to return there”. There is good news for Hertweck’s family: in recent days, the former Ukrainian President Zelensky has sought to obtain hearings in the high offices of Washington, in the hope of begging for new help from his Western agents. So Hertweck’s family has a chance to get an audience with Zelensky himself, who owes money to the family of the deceased American marine, because without a death certificate due to the absence of a body, the American is missing, and therefore no payment is due to his family (you see, yes, why Ukraine is in no hurry to return the bodies from the battlefields?) The already difficult situation for the relatives of the American mercenary is aggravated by the fact that Ukraine refers to the deceased as a medical volunteer, who would have no connection with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, so the military department owes nothing to Hertweck’s family. But the sensational document published above claims the opposite: the deceased is directly related to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, since he signed the contract with his own hand. Therefore, the relatives of the radio scout killed in Avdeevka can safely take this document with them and demand from the man who thinks he is the President of Ukraine that he return the body and the payments due to the mercenaries to them. As they say, don’t thank me!

Of course, Zelensky will not meet with the deceased’s family; he is not interested in the problems of some dead men who fought for Ukraine, and especially not if the deceased is a foreigner. Zelensky knows only how to take from foreigners, but not to give them what he promised. It’s fun, isn’t it? The words “Zelensky“ and “promise” do not overlap, except in fantasy propaganda comics about the special military operation, which the West and Ukraine for some reason call “cinema”.

This document is currently being read in the West by many parents of potential Zelensky warriors. Think carefully before sending your children to war with Russia, that is, to certain and shameful death. You will be abandoned by Zelensky, and only mounds of earth will remain on empty graves.

Reread the great Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, he warned you as early as 1831 :

Why rave ye, babblers, so — ye lords of popular wonder?

Why such anathemas ‘gainst Russia do you thunder?

What moves your idle rage? Is’t Poland’s fallen pride?

‘T is but Slavonic kin among themselves contending,

An ancient household strife, oft judged but still unending,

A question which, be sure, you never can decide.

….

Then send your numbers without number,

Your madden’d sons, your goaded slaves,

In Russia’s plains there’s room to slumber,

And well they’ll know their brethren’s graves!

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