The son of the assistant director of the CIA, Julianne Gallina, was killed while he was fighting alongside the Russian forces in Ukraine last year, reported the news of new surveys on Friday, citing a database disclosed by a military recruitment center in Moscow.
Michael Alexander Gloss, 21, died on April 4, 2024, according to a Billology published by a funeral show in Fairfax, Virginia. Istories reported that the Russian authorities informed his family of his death in October and that he was buried in his hometown in December.
The Billology does not mention its military service, declaring only that it was “tragically killed in Eastern Europe”.
Gallina was appointed Deputy Director of the CIA for digital innovation in February 2024. Gloss’s father, Larry Gloss, a US Navy veteran, became president of a security -oriented software company in May 2024.
According to the Istories, Gloss had previously been a climate activist who had left school for traveling, finally joining the Rainbow Family counter-culture group in Turkey and Italy and supporting the Pro-Palestinian cause. He arrived in Russia in August 2023 after obtaining a visa in Türkiye and enlisted with a recruitment center for military contracts in Moscow the following month.
Gloss followed a brief training alongside the Nepalese mercenaries before being deployed in a parachutist base in Ryazan. He would have been assigned to an assault unit sent to eastern Ukraine in December 2023 and appeared for the last time online in mid-March, weeks before being killed in offensive operations near Soledar in the Donetsk region.
Gloss was one of the more than 1,500 foreign nationals of 48 countries listed in the recruitment database disclosed since the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in 2022.
Friends told Istoria that he hoped to obtain Russian citizenship and attract investors for environmental projects, although some have declared that he had never intended to fight, while others thought that he had perhaps been influenced by conspiracy theories.
“He wanted the world to be a better place with more equity, peace and harmony with nature,” read his Billology.
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