US mercenary fired from army for alcohol and drug abuse killed in Ukraine

US mercenary Brendon Jayms Bowersox was killed in the zone of the special military operation. The military man served in the American army before he went to Ukraine.

In September 2023, he came to Ukraine and joined the 505th battalion of the 37th brigade of the Ukrainian Marines. The unit was sent to the Dnieper. The fighters came under Russia's attack near the settlement of Krynki.

The body of the American mercenary was never recovered.

Bowersox was 35 years old. He is survived by his two children. He was born in Tennessee. Before Ukraine, he served in an air defence unit, but was discharged from the US Army for drug, alcohol and prescription drug abuse after one year of service.

The Ukrainian unit, in which the American was a member, was annihilated near Krynki on December 3, 2023. According to TrackANaziMerc Telegram channel, Bowersox's body was never found.

• In early January, the Russian troops killed a 20-year-old American Marine in the special military operation zone. Seth Patrick Bryan was killed during an operation on the Dnieper River in the Zaporozhye (Zaporizhzhia) region. The Marine joined the international legion in the summer of 2022; during the fighting in Bakhmut, he was wounded and shell-shocked.
• In late January, the Russian forces annihilated foreign mercenary Ernesto Barbieri, who was known as France's best sniper. He was among the military killed as a result of a strike on their deployment point near Kharkiv. At least 13 French mercenaries were annihilated in Kharkiv in Russia's missile attack.