Two US citizens missing in Ukraine, feared captured by Russians
Al JazeeraThe two US military veterans were last known to be in the Kharkiv region on June 8. Two United States military veterans who were in Ukraine fighting against Russian forces have gone missing and are feared captured, family members and US Congress members have said. “My office has placed inquires with both the United States Department of State and the Federal Bureau of Investigation trying to get any information possible.” The Telegraph newspaper, which first reported on the disappearances, had quoted an unnamed fellow fighter who said the two men were captured after running into a larger Russian group during a June 9 battle northeast of Kharkiv. On Twitter, US Representative Adam Kinzinger said Drueke and Huynh had enlisted in the International Legion, a unit created by Ukraine’s military for foreign volunteers in the wake of the Russian invasion, “and thus are afforded legal combatant protections. “When Andy saw this footage coming out of Ukraine he said he couldn’t sleep, couldn’t eat, was just consumed by the horror that these innocent civilians were going through,” Black told Reuters news agency.
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