A 55-year-old American-born investment banker has died while fighting against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, Simon Ostrovsky of Vice News reported. Mark Gregory Paslawsky, a dual U.S.-Ukrainian citizen who Vice News named only as “Franko” when he was revealed to be fighting in the country earlier this month, was killed on Tuesday in the town of Ilovaysk. Paslawsky was a lone American in the Donbas battalion, a unit of volunteers he had been serving alongside for more than two months. In Vice’s first report on him, Paslawsky said he “insisted on being a private” in a six-man squad, despite his …read more
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