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Fugitive former US city councillor enlists with Russia for war in Ukraine

Wilmer Puello-Mota at a Russian army enlistment centre
Wilmer Puello-Mota at a Russian army enlistment centre in Khanty-Mansiysk in western Siberia. Photograph: Khanty-Mansi regional government/Telegram

A former city councillor and member of the Massachusetts national guard who is wanted in the US on child sexual abuse image charges has fled the country and joined the Russian army fighting in Ukraine.

Wilmer Puello-Mota, 28, former city councillor of Holyoke, Massachusetts, went missing on 7 January, two days before he was scheduled to appear in court in Rhode Island in possession of child sexual abuse images and obstruction of justice charges.

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