A US Military veteran from Idaho was killed whereas preventing Russian forces in Ukraine earlier this month, based on heartbroken members of the family.
Dane Partridge, was fatally wounded by a tank spherical on Oct. 3 whereas preventing within the Russian-separatist managed Donbas area in Japanese Ukraine.
A spokesperson from the US Division of State confirmed to The Submit that an American citizen was killed within the Donbas area of Ukraine, however supplied no extra particulars.
“We're in contact with the household and are offering all acceptable help,” the spokesperson stated, including they'd not be offering extra data “out of respect for the household’s privateness throughout this troublesome time.”
On Monday, Partridge’s sister Jenny Partridge Corry shared an replace on Fb that stated Partridge was on life assist after he was critically injured.
A health care provider from the Kyiv Army Hospital confirmed to the household that Partridge suffered in depth mind harm in addition to spinal harm on the mind stem and neck, based on Corry.
The following day, the household realized that Partridge had succumbed to his wounds.
“We have now simply been knowledgeable that Dane aka Chook has handed away whereas nonetheless being on life assist. I do know his soul has discovered peace,” Corry wrote.
She remembered her brother as “all the time good for a joke, witty banter and the occasional critical dialog.”
“He stayed true to his religion and non secular convictions until his dying days,” she continued.
“He was a nice soldier who fought with valor and bravado on the battlefield. We have now been instructed that he was recognized to be on the entrance of his crew main his males as he would by no means ask his males to do something that he wasn’t prepared to do.
“Our lives have perpetually been modified by this stalwart man.”
Days earlier, Partridge’s father, Dennis Partridge, instructed family and friends in a put up that his son had been injured “preventing for freedom in Ukraine.”
“I've discovered it troublesome to debate the occasions of this final week, my son Dane who was preventing for freedom in Ukraine, was critically injured by a Russian tank spherical, and at present in a coma with a big mind harm.”
Whereas he was stationed in Ukraine, Corry stated he sometimes messaged her to let her understand how a lot he missed his spouse and kids.
Partridge joined the battle in Ukraine in April after elevating funds to buy himself a aircraft ticket and upgraded army tools. He stated on the time that he “felt a have to go” and assist defend Ukrainians from invading Russian forces.
“This has been mentioned with a number of folks and I'm assured in my resolution to go. I'm reaching out to see if I can get some assist in getting over there,’ Dane wrote in a put up about his fundraising marketing campaign.
After shopping for a aircraft ticket and updating his physique armor and helmets, he left for Europe on April 25. He wrote his final Fb put up on April 27, after touchdown in Poland earlier than crossing the border to affix the battle in neighboring Ukraine.
“Made it to the embassy, getting on a bus for the border. From this level on I cannot probably be giving areas or actions for opsec causes. I'll allow you to all know I’m alive,” the veteran stated.
Matt Reeves, Patridge’s commanding officer from 2007 to 2009 throughout his 15 month tour of Iraq throughout Operation Iraqi Freedom, wrote in a touching tribute to his former soldier on Fb.
He stated he realized just a few months again that Partridge was heading to battle in Ukraine and feels his former soldier’s dying “one way or the other my fault,” since “as his sergeant in 2008, I used to be answerable for his life and his well-being, I used to be answerable for his life and his well-being…”
“I needed to inform him so badly to not go. He wasn’t Ukrainian, he didn’t have household from there, he was only a man from Idaho. I needed to inform him that his household, his buddies, and his previous battle buddies wanted him right here, protected,” Reeves wrote.
“However he felt so strongly about it that he went. And there’s no doable technique to speak somebody out of one thing like that. Nor are you able to even strategy them about it. He felt that very same name to defend the Ukrainian folks as he did for the Iraqi folks. Possibly he’s a greater man than me for that.”
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