American reportedly killed in Ukraine ran for Minnesota U.S. Senate seat in 1990

 American reportedly killed in Ukraine ran for Minnesota U.S. Senate seat in 1990

Russell Bentley was a marijuana legalization activist when he challenged Rudy Boschwitz in the race won by Paul Wellstone.

An American citizen known to have fought with Kremlin-backed separatists in Ukraine and who once ran for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota has died in Russian-occupied territory, Moscow said Friday evenin…