UPDATE BY LYUDMILA BENTLEY FROM JULY 8TH, 2026 (1/3)

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Good evening, everyone. Although for me, this evening is not very good since my brain is unable to shut down due to ongoing distress. In general, things are not very good as of late.

I made this video for close friends and wasn’t planning to publish it. But now I feel that it needs to be done in order for everyone to see proof of the rapid decline of my health, in particular, the issues with my heart, as I’ve depicted in this video, which I had never had before Russell's murder, and which are getting worse due to the lawlessness being carried out against myself, the victim in the criminal case of my husband's murder. I experience episodes of heart arrhythmia, which have been occurring quite often as of late, now almost daily, when my heart slows down significantly and it gets hard to breathe, and then the heart starts beating too hard, after which I experience severe shortness of breath. I cannot show it, I can only describe what happens.

I've been patiently silent about this for some time now, hoping for people's prudence, but it seems they’ve decided to test my patience.

What’s going on now feels very similar to the time back when I addressed the public regarding the lawlessness taking place when investigators of the Military Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation lied to me and tried to sweep the case under the rug, and, in doing so, forced me to address Vladimir Putin directly.

Over the past couple of days, people have started sending me DMs asking how things are going with the verdict of the Court of Appeals that was rendered on June 9, (2026), as well as asking about the date of the funeral of those meager remains of Russell, which were left following an extremely close-range explosion and which the criminals did not manage to take away with the majority of the remains, so that "there would be no body and, as such, there would be no (criminal) case." During the trial, Russell's remains were returned to Moscow after an independent examination abroad. I was told that those Muscovites who would not be unable to attend the funeral in Donetsk would still like to come and say goodbye in Moscow.

Anyway, on June 9, 2026, after the verdict was announced at the Court of Appeal hearing, one of the three judges said, at the end, that "the verdict has now taken effect, and that, within the first five days, the court will prepare the paperwork to send back to the lower court, within the next seven days, where I, as the victim, will be able to receive it."

As it stands, I'm still trying to get a copy of the verdict that has taken effect. I still haven't been given some of Russell's found belongings, which, according to the law, I must receive in 15 days after the verdict takes effect. I still haven't received the writ of execution, even though all of the deadlines have long since passed.

When I went to the courthouse to get my copy of the verdict, my husband's belongings, and the writ of execution, I was told that the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation had filed an appeal against my claim, so the court wasn’t going to give me anything. This is taking place six months after the verdict (of the lower court) was announced on December 8, 2025! How is this okay?! The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, like all of the participants of the process, had the law-given fifteen days starting on 12/08/2025 (to submit their appeal)! But given how very special they are, they can do whatever they want, and, as such, they filed their appeal six months later! After the appeal hearing took place! And, in their complaint, the Ministry of Defence wrote exactly the same things that it had already written in their (original) objections during the (lower court) trial. Back then, the court took them into account, but still decided in my favor. (This took place despite the fact that) two attorneys of the convicts opposed my claim. The Court of Appeals ruled in my favor, after which the sentence was to go into effect.

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