Frontline Diary of An American Officer

Directed by Oleg Nekishev and Olga Kiriy

Film Review

Film link: https://en.rtdoc.tv/films/1031-frontline-diary-of-an-american-officer

This documentary follows Lieutenant Scott Bennett, whistleblower and former US Army Special Operations and Psychological Operations Officer (see  https://armypsyop.wixsite.com/shellgame) as he tours Donbas in late 2024.

In the city of Donetsk, he bears witness to the continuing attacks (since 2014*) by Ukrainian forces on local residents and (eg libraries, schools and apartment buildings) and interviews local women unable to leave the house without body armor. Some Ukrainian attacks on Donetsk civilians are personal, for example the girl who had her gut cut in a swastika shape after being raped, tortured and branded.

Bennett also participates in drills with Russian special forces defending Donbas civilians, visits injured Russian soldiers in the hospital and examines their weaponry and the American and European weapons collected from Ukrainian POWS.

The most interesting for me were interviews with a Ukrainian POW and Japanese and South Korean volunteers fighting for the Russian Federation.** The POW, claiming no one in Ukraine wants to join the fight against the Russians, asserts he was kidnapped off the street and sent to the front line. He also talks about draftees in his Azov Battalion agreeing to get Teutonic, Viking and Swastika tattoos after “drug inducement.”

The Japanese volunteer talks about his strong opposition to globalism and George Soros and the Russians being “our only” hope to halt that agenda. He has also seen German, Italian and Colombian volunteers fighting with the Russians.

*Ukrainian citizens in the Donbas region voted overwhelmingly (90%) to join the Russian Federation following the CIA coup in Kiev in 2014.

**All Russian soldiers serving in Donbas are also volunteers.