February 25 Russia already occupied 6% of the area of Ukraine when he launched the ultimate invasion. They have been in a battle as bloody as it is reprehensible for almost four months and the news that comes out has only a negative tint: two US citizens who traveled to Ukraine as volunteer combatants against the Russian forces have been missing for a week and it is feared that they have been captured, according to their families report.
Andy Huynh y Robert Duerke participated in the fighting north of the city of Kiev but all traces were lost on June 8, the day they were in contact with their loved ones but did not return to the mission in the region of Járjov.
“What we officially know at this point from the State Department is that Andy and Alex are missing. We have no confirmation of anything beyond that. Obviously, the longer the search goes on, the more we’ll start to look at other scenarios,” he said. Joy BlackAndy’s partner.
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At the same time Maria Zakharova, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said the United States had not contacted Russia regarding the reports of American fighters. “I don’t have that information, I check it every day and I will do it again. We make public all the information about the fate of mercenaries arrested or sentenced to trial,” she reported.
Concern
If captured, they would be the first confirmed U.S. citizens to have been taken as prisoners of war in the conflict that began in late February with the Russian president, Vladimir Putinordering an invasion of its neighboring country.
Russian soldiers have already taken two Britons and one Moroccan prisoner and sentenced them to death, in violation of the laws of war.
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