Footage present the CIA deputy director’s son who – unbeknownst to his mom and father – was preventing for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine.
Michael Gloss, 21, was killed within the struggle in April final yr, however particulars of the story have solely emerged now after an investigation by Russian unbiased information outlet iStories.
Photographs exhibiting him carrying camouflage and hanging out with troopers have emerged.
His mom, Julianne Gallina Gloss, is the Central Intelligence Company’s deputy director for digital innovation.
His father, Larry Gloss, is a US Navy veteran who participated in Operation Desert Storm and the Iraq Conflict.Â
Within the wake of his son’s loss of life, Larry described him to the Washington Publish as a ‘peacenik’ who ‘would not damage a flea.’Â
‘Along with his noble coronary heart and warrior spirit, Michael cast his personal hero’s path when he tragically died in Jap Europe on April 4, 2024,’ his household wrote in an obituary that didn’t point out he was within the Russian military.
They discovered their son died in June and held a funeral for him in December, in accordance with The Washington Publish. Nonetheless, his involvement within the Russian army was not revealed till Friday when iStories revealed a narrative.Â
The CIA mentioned Gallina and her household ‘suffered an unimaginable private tragedy within the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with psychological well being points, died whereas preventing within the battle in Ukraine.’

Michael Gloss, 21, was killed within the struggle in April final yr, however particulars of the story have solely emerged now after an investigation by Russian unbiased information outlet iStories

Photographs exhibiting him carrying camouflage (proper) and hanging out with troopers have emerged

His mom, Julianne Gallina Gloss, is the Central Intelligence Company’s deputy director for digital innovation. The intelligence company ‘considers Michael’s passing to be a non-public household matter for the Gloss household – not a nationwide safety situation’
Michael had reportedly stopped taking his medicine years in the past and had began going ‘off the grid.’Â Â
The intelligence company ‘considers Michael’s passing to be a non-public household matter for the Gloss household – not a nationwide safety situation.’
It was with ‘disbelief and devastation’ that his mother and father found from the State Division that their son had been killed from a ‘huge blood loss’ in an artillery barrage in Donetsk area preventing for Putin’s forces.Â
‘It was completely information to us that he was concerned in any army relationship with Russia,’ his father informed The Washington Publish.
His father mentioned: ‘He died operating to assist a wounded comrade, attempting to guard him. That was traditional Michael.’
He had gone to Russia after visiting ex-Soviet republic Georgia.
Michael had left his Virginia dwelling in January 2023 to journey to Italy to work on farms and Turkey to assist with earthquake restoration. He then went to Georgia, the place he attended the Rainbow Household counterculture motion.Â
He then went to Russia, the place he informed his mother and father he was assembly good friend, his father mentioned.Â

He had beforehand denied to his mother and father – who discovered about his loss of life in June – that he had not joined the army after they found his location was in a army coaching city in Russia

‘Our greatest concern whereas we had been ready for him to be repatriated was that somebody over there [in Moscow] would put two and two collectively and work out who his mom was, and use him as a prop,’ Larry, his dad, mentionedÂ

The CIA mentioned Gallina and her household ‘suffered an unimaginable private tragedy within the spring of 2024 when her son Michael Gloss, who struggled with psychological well being points, died whereas preventing within the battle in Ukraine’

Michael in an undated picture carrying a capeÂ
His mother and father had been ‘on guard, skeptical, suspicious’ however ‘at no level did he counsel or did we suspect he would be a part of the army. By no means,’ Larry informed The Washington Publish.Â
Michael informed his mother and father he wished to remain in Russia in September 2023 and by December 2023, he had been shipped off to Ukraine to battle within the struggle, iStories discovered.Â
When his mother and father tracked his cellphone after his arrival within the totalitarian nation, they found he was in Avangard, which does army coaching. He denied he had joined, The Publish mentioned.Â
Michael had mentioned that he wished to get Russian citizenship however his mother and father imagine that his ‘psychological sickness’ was a think about his selections about preventing for Putin’s forces.
They had been fearful that the Russians would twig who his mom was.
‘Our greatest concern whereas we had been ready for him to be repatriated was that somebody over there [in Moscow] would put two and two collectively and work out who his mom was, and use him as a prop,’ Larry informed The Washington Publish.
Michael apparently believed that Russia would let him fulfil his dream of constructing a water air purifier to assist individuals who had no entry to scrub water.
‘I can solely attribute it to his psychological sickness,’ Larry informed the newspaper. ‘It clearly defies logic.
‘Should you knew our son, he was the final word antiestablishment, anti-authority younger man the minute he got here into the world.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to Gallina for remark. Â
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