The 21-year-old Gloss was one of at least 1.5 thousand foreigners who were hired by the Russian Ministry of Defense through the recruiting center in Moscow and fought against Ukraine. The publication reported that there were at least two US citizens who came to hire in the Russian Army in 2023-2024.
Michael Gloss's father, a US Navy veteran, Larry Gloss, he has a reward for participating in the Operation in the deserts (Iraq), worked in the field of cybersecurity, and now he heads a structure that creates software for customers' security, including the US government and the Ministry of Defense of NATO countries.
Mother – Julian Gloss, who has worked in intelligence for more than 30 years and was appointed deputy director of the CIA for digital innovation in February 2024.
“The young anti -fascist, environmental activist and defender of women from the family deputy director of the CIA dreamed of traveling lightly the whole world, but ended his life in the Russian army,” the Glosse “important stories.”
According to them, in 2023, the American decided to come to the Crimea occupied by Russia and spoke about the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine: “In conflicts between nations, it is the larger, imperialist nation that brings peace through military victory.”
He issued a Russian visa in the summer of 2023 in Istanbul. The fact that he was “in Russia” wrote in a chat on August 13. Media found out that Gloss arrived from Georgia in the Russian Federation.
Journalists note that Gloss explained in different ways the purpose of the trip to Russia: and that he wants to learn the Russian language by the “language immersion method”, and that he wants to get Russian citizenship and move to this country to live, and that he wants to develop its own environmental project in Russia.
In September, he ended the action of a Russian visa, approximately then he had problems with money.
A medical examination before signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Gloss, according to “important stories”, was held on September 5.
Glossa was later found in the photo of Nepalz from the training camp.
The American was also noticed in the video shot in the location of the 137th regiment of military-distant troops in the Russian Ryazan.
Journalists found out that in the concentration of March 2024, the regiment in which the Gloss was, began an attack on Ukrainian positions in the area of Soledar Donetsk region, and the American was killed on April 4. The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.
Glossa was buried in the United States on December 21, in his necrologist there is no mention that he fought against Ukraine, he just “tragically died in Eastern Europe.”
Context
On attracting foreign mercenaries to the Russian occupation army in March 2022 Reported in the Pentagon.
January 16, 2023 it became known that in Russia foreigners offer service in the army In exchange for citizenship of the Russian Federation.
The fact that Russia was recruiting foreigners to the army, in September 2023 Reported British intelligence. In particular, they recruited citizens of Armenia, Cuba, Kazakhstan, as well as migrants from Central Asia. In intelligence, it was reported that the Uzbek migrant builders in Mariupol Donetsk region confiscated passports upon arrival and forced them to join the ranks of the Russian army.
