A citizen of the United States of America, Michael Alexander Gloss, identified as the son of a federal appointee, has died while fighting for Russia in the ongoing war with Ukraine.
21-year-old Gloss, son of deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Juliane Gallina, was killed in eastern Ukraine in 2024 while fighting under contract for the Russian military.
Report from the investigation by Independent Russian media released on Friday, made this known.
Gloss is said to have died on 4 April 2024 in “Eastern Europe”;, as an obituary published by his family said.
Gallina was appointed the deputy director for digital innovation at the Central Intelligence Agency in February 2024.
On a VKontakte page attributed to Gloss, a high school football player born to parents who both served in the military, he described himself as “a supporter of the multipolar world. I ran away from home. traveled the world. I hate fascism. I love my homeland.”; He also posted the flags of Russia and Palestine.
According to the investigative website iStories, Gloss is one of more than 1,500 foreigners who have signed contracts with the Russian military since February 2022.
The database for the enrollment office was later leaked, exposing him as having signed the contract in September 2023.
Sources told iStories that Gloss had been deployed with “assault units”;, those engaged in harsh frontline fighting, in December 2023.
An acquaintance, according to the Guardian UK, said that the 26-year-old had been deployed to a Russian airborne regiment sent to storm Ukrainian positions near the city of Soledar.
“With his noble heart and warrior spirit Michael was forging his own hero’s journey when he was tragically killed in Eastern Europe on April 4, 2024,”; his family wrote in the obituary, which did not mention Russia and Ukraine or discuss the circumstances of his death.
