https://www.kyivpost.com/post/56286

Derek Huffman, an American man from Texas, moved his wife DeAnna and three children to Russia in search of “traditional values”, but the father of three is now being sent to the front lines in Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine after assurances that he would have a non-combat role.

The family moved to Russia in 2025 to be a part of Tim Kirby’s “American Village” project. Kirby is an American media personality who has been living in Russia since 2006 and supports Putin.

In May, Derek, who has no military experience, joined the Russian military, being promised work as a welder, but was sent to the front after just weeks of training.

His wife, De Anna, took to social media to plead her case after her husband was duped into front-line combat after just weeks of training in the Russian language, which Derek and his American family do not speak or understand.

“Derek, when he signed up and had all of that done, he was told he would not be training for two weeks and going straight to the front lines. But it seems as though he is getting one more week of training, closer to the front lines, and then they are going to put him on the front lines,” said DeAnna, in a video recorded in Russia.

The Huffman family seems to finance their move and new life in Russia through solicitations on Social Media. and YouTube channel, and have appeared in numerous Russian propaganda videos.

In an earlier video on their YouTube channel, Derek explained that he was joining the Russian army to gain citizenship for his family in one year, as opposed to the longer traditional migration process. He also mentioned the signing bonus and that he is hoping to gain the respect to “earn” his place in Russia.

“I don’t want anyone here in Russia to say that we dont belong here, so if I go put my body on the line for Russia, I defend the country, our new country, I’ve earned our place here. And nobody can tell me different, or tell my family different. That we don’t belong here,” said Derek in the video filmed last month.

“We are hoping that he can be utilized for his skills and not be used just as a fighter. Unfortunately, there was a few things not quite done that should have been done, and now we are just believing in god that everything is going to work out as it is supposed to,” said DeAnna, in her social media appeal.

Derek was originally promised a job as a war correspondent, then as a mechanic in a repair battalion because of his experience as a welder.

Instead, his unit of foreigners is reportedly being trained, hastily, in Russian, for frontline combat.

“Unfortunately, he feels like he is being thrown to the wolves right now, and he is kind of having to lean on faith.”

The family solicited prayers and is petitioning unspecified public figures to have Derek reassigned.

His wife DeAnna also reported that Derek and the others in his unit were forced to “donate” 10,000 rubles for their own “supplies,” which took a substantial part of his paycheck.

His wife reported that she has not received any pay or bonus after one month.

Derek is not the first American to have misfortune in Russia in recent years. In April 2024, Michael Gloss, the 21-year-old son of a CIA executive, was killed while fighting for Moscow in Ukraine.

>>1420675 (OP)
lmao couldn't have happened to a better person.

>>1420675 (OP)
>(((((((((KIEVpost))))))))
Fake news. Ukraine is a fake country thats sending elderly, children, retards and women to the meat grinder

>>1420677
>lmao couldn't have happened to a better person.
^^^ Posted from mom's basement by someone who hasn't served unless it's at a retail establishment, or the IDF.

>>1420679
>>1420680
Why can't you just have a normal conversation without being unhinged?

>>1420679
>>1420680
Why don't you follow Derek Huffman's example, then, by moving to Russia and then serving in the Russian army in Ukraine?

>>1420681
>Why can't you just have a normal conversation without being unhinged?
Why can't you have a normal conversation without "rejoicing" over the effects of war?

>>1420682
>Why don't you follow Derek Huffman's example, then, by moving to Russia and then serving in the Russian army in Ukraine?
Why don't you move out of your basement and support ZOG directly by signing up for the UAF or IDF?

>move to Russia for traditional values
>get traditional role serving on the front lines
He should be happy

>>1420685
Jews pooped your pants?

>>1420680
>by someone who hasn't served
Wrong. Done my time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not looking to go back anytime soon.

>>1420685
Because i dont live in a country with forced conscription
Feels nice

>>1420684
Why can't you have a normal conversation without wanting Putin to win?
>>1420685
Why don't you move out of your basement and support Z, as in Putin's forces in Ukraine?
>>1420688
>Done my time in Iraq and Afghanistan
But only playing modded FPSs in your basement. Nice larp, though. I bet you have the same tacticool gear from an army surplus store. Or you can prove us wrong by following Huffman's example if you're so passionate about what Putin's doing. If you don't, you're proving us right about why you're not.

>>1420676
>we are just believing in god
You cannot spell Believe without the word Lie
>lean on faith
Faith sounds just like Fail
>all those Ivans obliterated by drones
Where was their God then? In some cases they literally didn't know what hit them. It can happen at any time, to any of Putin's soldiers
Where will your God be, Derek?

>>1420680
>Ziggers mad

>>1420693
>But only playing modded FPSs in your basement.
Nah, just MW2 inna tent.
>Or you can prove us wrong by following Huffman's example if you're so passionate about what Putin's doing.
Why are you assuming I'm passionate about what Putin is doing? I don't like the guy. What gave you that impression?

>>1420686
>get traditional role serving on the front lines
>by serving ZOG
yes goy; fight for le traditional values and die for us. good goy

>>1420675 (OP)
I feel bad for the kids. Guy and his wife are retarded but the sad thing is when he gets fucking killed in Ukraine and she probably gets disappeared for complaining about the regime, they're stuck in Russia (probably in the foster system too) for almost certainly the rest of their lives through no fault of their own.

>>1420706
>after just weeks of training in the Russian language, which Derek and his American family do not speak or understand.
How did they feel about hispanics not learning English in America?

>>1420708
>>1420708
Idk? From your quote tho these people are indeed "training" to learn Russian

>>1420709
I mean, there is a massive amount of hypocrisy in complaining about people not speaking english and then going to another country where you have to spend weeks learning the language and still have a shit grasp of it.

>>1420714
>there is a massive amount of hypocrisy in complaining about people not speaking english and then going to another country where you have to spend weeks learning the language and still have a shit grasp of it
I've never heard of anyone, ever in the world becoming fluent in a new language in a couple of weeks.

I think you need to take a step back and reflect on yourself and why you are falsely presenting this as a reasonable standard.

>>1420720
>I think you need to take a step back and reflect on yourself and why you are falsely presenting this as a reasonable standard.
It's not a reasonable standard. Yet they have it for immigrants and not for themselves. That's why they're a pair of fucking hypocrites.

>>1420722
>It's not a reasonable standard
Agreed
>Yet they have it for immigrants and not for themselves.
Do you have any evidence that "they" expect someone to become fluent in a new language in a couple weeks?
It sounds made up

>>1420675 (OP)
conscription is incredibly trad tho

>>1420725
>Do you have any evidence that "they" expect someone to become fluent in a new language in a couple weeks?
When you keep complaining "these people don't speak english!" you're doing just that. You don't know the backstory of the random mexican guy down the street. He could've just immigrated here two weeks ago. He could be on his third language and is still getting the hang of it. You don't fucking know, so why are you judging them for it?

>>1420675 (OP)
>Tim Kirby’s “American Village” project
I was curious about the other poor suckers who signed up. Turns out it's just "poor sucker", because there's only two families there including these retards.

>https://united24media.com/latest-news/russias-dream-village-for-anti-woke-americans-draws-only-two-families-sends-a-father-to-warzone-9976
Oh, and also this caused the wife to fall off the wagon, though admittedly moving to bumfuck nowhere russia while being a recovering alcoholic was already a bad idea considering that's the reason why Russians drink so much in the first place.

>>1420729
Honestly, this article pointing out they have 3 adult sons who chose to stay in the US does give me some hope for their kids, though I equally see Russia fucking disappearing them into their foster system the same way they did to those abducted Ukrainian kids.

>>1420675 (OP)
>Derek Huffman, an American man from Texas, moved his wife DeAnna and three children to Russia in search of “traditional values
Here's your 'traditional values', Derek
https://www.military.com/video/off-duty/odd/akward-moments-with-vladimir-putin/3129473236001
Here's your 'Fell For It Again' award. Send it to your wife, perhaps she can sell it for a few rubles, in lieu of pay you she thought you would send her.

>>1420675 (OP)
>Derek Huffman, an American man from Texas, moved his wife DeAnna and three children to Russia in search of “traditional values'
Here's your 'traditional values', Derek
https://www.military.com/video/off-duty/odd/akward-moments-with-vladimir-putin/3129473236001
Here's your 'Fell For It Again' award. Send it to your wife, perhaps she can sell it for a few rubles, in lieu of pay she thought you would send her.

>>1420731
Those kids are going to be turning tricks on a Moscow street corner within the month. Russia is a fucked up place.

>>1420728
>When you keep complaining "these people don't speak english!"
But I don't tho
The rest of your post is pure strawman, you are imagining a scenario without evidence and assigning your biases into others without knowing their situation.

You are doing exactly what you are accusing others of doing, you have no idea what these people did or said before this was reported and you are projecting your biases on others

>>1420705
The ZOG forces are Ukrainian tho. Russia fights for the side of traditionalism

>>1420737
>traditionalism
>alcoholism and pedophilia
You can't even larp as a Russian supporter properly

>>1420734
lol
>>1420748
lmao

What a retard!

>>1420685
Lmao you are so deliciously mad. Between this and Epstein, it’s been like Christmas every day! Watching you faggots collapse in real time has been a joy. Conservatears are quenching my thirst. Keep it up!

>>1420737
>Russia fights for the side of traditionalism
Traditionalism:
https://www.military.com/video/off-duty/odd/akward-moments-with-vladimir-putin/3129473236001
The above proves that your so-called 'traditionalism' needs to be eliminated. Indeed, 'traditionalism' never had the right to exist in the first place, if the likes of you are enablers of Putin the Pedo.

>>1420738
Anon, that IS traditionalism by Russian standards.

Derek Huffman is one of those MAGA supporters but I couldn't find Ucrane on a map if it had a big picture of a crane on it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BRUO5HBvTM8

>>1420675 (OP)
This story actually sounds to stupid to be true. Who ever would move by free will to Russia? Ok, except Steven Seagal maybe. I mean what crap did you must have heard about Russia to abandon a (also somewhat messy) Country like USA to move to a completely messed up Country like Russia?
OK, one thing I must give Russia: they are great in Propaganda and disinformation. No clue how they manage to still have that much influence in foreign media. I wish "normal" countries would have that much Interweb-power. But somehow, it's mostly China, Russia and so on.

>>1420879
>Who ever would move by free will to Russia?
Stupid people.

>>1420879
Terminal online brainrot. These retards thought a RANCH IN TEXAS was too vulnerable to "woke ideologies" and took up this one conservative influencer/commentator's attempt to get people to move to his village in Russia (only one other family was dumb enough to fall for it too) and now they're fucked.

>>1420879
Russia has been projecting themselves as a bastion of capital T Tradition and capital B Basedness. They show images of blonde girls baking bread and white people at an Eastern Orthodox Church ceremony and let idiots fill in the blanks without also showing the miserable grey commie blocks with child prostitutes and empty vodka bottles on every street corner. They don't show them the reality until their passports have been confiscated and a chechen is warming up his cock for whichever family member is unfortunate enough to end up in front of him.

>>1420879
They thought Russia was just Canada but with Orthodox Christianity.
Twisted perception of the world, after living in safety under Liberalism

>>1420879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9HIeOWFdsg
People who have an infantile understanding of how the world works and see shit like this enough times (It's from 2 years ago, hence the "cheap gas" line)

>>1420685
Hold on, so you're telling me there is this group of people who have been controlling the course of history from the shadows for hundreds or thousands of years (the timeline of this whole thing is something I still don't quite understand) and have remained in power despite whole nations trying to dethrone them.
Why exactly would I not want to be on their side? All in all I feel like humanity has doing alright so far.

>actually go out of your way to enlist during a war in the army that fights that war
>noooo how can they send me to war?
The recruiter must have thought he had a really dumb goy on his hands

>>1420675 (OP)
>Be disgusted with anal sex
>Move to the country with the highest chance of getting ass raped in the world
>Join the institution where anal sex is part of joining (Dedovshchina)
What did he mean by this?

no matter how difficult his daughters lives will be in Russia, it would've been worse in the LGBTQIABLM+ child-rapist regime of Weimerica. Z

>escaping 'Woke' US
>living in Russia where pedophilia is in the DNA of 'traditionalist' Russians. Just ask their Pedo Tsar Putin
https://www.military.com/video/off-duty/odd/akward-moments-with-vladimir-putin/3129473236001
>because of certain politicians refusing to make child marriages illegal in certain states, US is already infected with the disease that is the Gang Of Pedophiles. This was before the Epstein Scandal blowing up with cultists supporting their Kidfucker-in-Chief Trump
Ziggers are enablers of pedos in both Pedo Putin's Russia & Lolita Express-riding Trump-presided US, both child rapist regimes, no matter how much they try to deny, deflect or distract from reality.
It's now more than impossible for that which they can never properly define to be worse: 'Woke'.
If that which the Ziggers condone - pedophilia - is the 'alternative', then the SJWs have won the Culture War. And no matter how much they deny this, the resulting melties Ziggers/MAGAts have because of those who refuse to listen to their wrong opinions, they need to see doctors already and get meds.

>>1421226
>child-rapist regime of Weimerica.
You ALWAYS bring up Trump

dead
https://themalteseherald.com/2025/07/23/derek-huffman-confirmed-killed-with-drone/

>>1420675 (OP)
>In May, Derek, who has no military experience, joined the Russian military, being promised work as a welder, but was sent to the front after just weeks of training.
Maybe don't join the military if you don't want to be in the military, regardless of what snail oils are promised.