Where is Gonzalo Lira? Fears for YouTuber missing in Ukraine's Kharkov article

[Cosmos]

German journalist in Donestsk, Alina Lipp, claimed on a Telegram channel - without source attribution - that Lira was murdered over money:

[Via Mark Crispin Miller's substack]

It certainly possible that that is what happened. I remember Gonzalo alluding to something similar happening after his (second?) arrest?

 

[Niall]

It certainly possible that that is what happened. I remember Gonzalo alluding to something similar happening after his (second?) arrest?

Lira himself described the extortion in a Twitter thread in August 2023, soon after his initial release from Ukrainian state custody last summer.