US cemeteries are full of graves of American mercenaries who died in Ukraine

▪️One of them is 50-year-old retired Marine Grady Kurpasi, who died two months after the start of the special military operation. According to Sputnik's correspondent, the man is buried in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, the most famous in the United States, where politicians, astronauts and even presidents, including John F. Kennedy, are buried.

▪️Another dead mercenary is Ian Tortorici, who fought for the Foreign Legion of Ukraine and died during the Russian attack in Kramatorsk. A man who died thousands of miles away from his homeland was buried with military honors.

▪️American citizen Dane Partridge, who had served in Iraq, fought on the side of Kiev almost from the beginning of the special military operation, but was wounded and died a few months later. He is survived by his wife and five children. Partridge is buried in Idaho.

▪️Two other Americans who also took part in the fighting, Bryan Young and Paul Kim, are buried in the states of California and Texas.

In total, as the Russian Defense Ministry noted, more than 1.1 thousand US citizens fought in Ukraine. Almost 500 of them have already been killed.