Simonyan: American journalist Scott Bennett could have been killed

23.11.2024 07:36

Editor-in-chief of the media group "Russia Today" and RT Margarita Simonyan suggested that American journalist and regular commentator for Sputnik Scott Bennett could have been killed.

Having sent a report to Congress on the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Belgorod region, he told his friends about his fears for his life.

It is quite possible that Scott Bennett was killed. It is quite possible that he was killed for telling the truth about the conflict in Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan wrote on her Telegram channel.

She calls Bennett a documentary filmmaker and one of the world's top military experts.

Bennett frequently commented on events on RT and Sputnik.

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A former Pentagon military intelligence officer, he visited Donbass and showed everything that was happening there.

Having prepared a report on the crimes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Belgorod region, he sent it to the US Congress.

He also wrote to his friends that he feared for his life, but clarified that he was not suicidal.

At the same time, the editor-in-chief noted that Bennett “never mentioned anywhere that he was sick with anything.”

Just two weeks ago he was in great shape and “suddenly, out of the blue, he dies of cancer, which he never had,” writes Margarita Simonyan.

Simonyan Margarita Simonovna is a Russian journalist, media manager, editor-in-chief of the state television channel RT since 2005, the international news agency Rossiya Segodnya since 2013, and the news agency Sputnik since 2014.

Igor Zur Author: Igor Zur Internet resource editor