U.S. military veterans Alexander Drueke and Andy Tai Huynh were released Wednesday as part of a prisoner exchange between the governments in Kyiv and Moscow, an agreement as stunning as it was sprawling.
In a phone call with his aunt Thursday, Drueke said that in that moment, it seemed things“That was one of those moments,” said the aunt, Dianna Shaw, “where it was a gut punch for me.”
from the governments of Saudi Arabia and Turkey, continued to trickle out Thursday. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told reporters covering the U.N. General Assemblywas the result of “diplomatic traffic I conducted” with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling “Even as this [war] is awful for Ukraine … it’s awful for the Russian people,” the official said. “Putin has chosen his own vain imperial ambition over his people’s needs.”Ukraine’s chief military intelligence directorate, said some of the liberated Ukrainians had been “subjected to very cruel torture” while in captivity. It is unclear if Drueke and Huynh endured such
Drueke, a former U.S. soldier, and Huynh, a Marine Corps veteran, disappeared near the city of Kharkiv on June 8 while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. They were moved a few times during their captivity, and likely were held in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, Drueke’s family believes.Drueke and Huynh appear to have been kept together throughout their captivity, according to Shaw.
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