A U.S. Air Force veteran who was facing a possession of child pornography charge when he fled the country appears to have confirmed, in a propaganda video released Monday, that he has joined the Russian Army. He insisted he is not a traitor.

“I’m Will, I’m from Massachusetts,” Wilmer Puello-Mota, who is also a former city councilman in Holyoke, Massachusetts, said in the five-minute video released by Russia’s Defense Ministry. “My call sign is ‘Boston.'”

Puello-Mota, 28, is serving as a…