An American escapes intimidation and captivity by Russian troops in Ukraine
Terry Gately is a minister from Texas. He went to Kherson, before the Russian invasion, to visit his girlfriend and do volunteer work.
U.S. Intelligence has identified 18 such facilities the Russians use to decide whom to send to Russia. In many cases, it's for imprisonment. "And I just happened to be in the one place that the Russians took on the first day. If I would have been anywhere else, I would have said, 'oh, there's a war. Well, I got to go'. But that didn't happen," Gately said. "You can't use your debit card anywhere because now they're saying all this part of Russia.
At that point, U.S. Embassy staff in Ukraine had long since been evacuated. But he says the State Department was following his case and warned him against going to Russia. His escape was orchestrated by a group of American soldiers who had led rescues first in Afghanistan and then in Ukraine. GATELY: The bus driver will know you. The password is 'white Mercedes.' We have people on the bus that you don't know about, but they'll take it from there. "Every time they saw I was American. But this time they took me off the bus. Get me there, look through my phone, and I'm a licensed carry instructor for the state of Texas. So I got a lot of gun pictures. They swore up and down that I came to Ukraine to train people, to shoot, to use guns and kill Russian soldiers.
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