Two American prisoners of war who fought with Kyiv's forces in Kharkov were captured, according to reports from Ukraine. The DPR sentenced three foreign mercenaries earlier to death, drawing a rebuke from the UK.
The British secretary of state for foreign affairs, Liz Truss, said the Geneva Convention covered the two Britons from the three captives, but Moscow said she was mistaken.
American Fighters Captured
According to Washington, it will exhaust all means to get the two POWs back home, said a US official, reported RT.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price remarked last Wednesday that all attempts to get their release will be done should the report be confirmed. These US militants are identified as Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh, said the Daily Telegraph last Thursday.
These are the first Americans captured fighting in Ukraine, as stated, and the outlet says it is a political powder keg for the Biden administration, noted News Max.
Although the White House has not authorized an official denial or confirmation, John Kirby, a former Pentagon spokesman who is the US National Security Council coordinator for Strategic Communications, pledged to use whatever leverage he has to secure their release if the reported capture is clarified.
Kirby added in a press conference that once everything is fully confirmed, he promises to get them back no matter what. He stresses the Biden administration is against US citizens going to Ukraine and being part of the active troops there, as the alleged American prisoners of war caught in the rout of Kyiv's forces.
Should anybody want to support Ukraine, there's a better way than taking up arms on the frontlines that is safer for anyone interested in helping. The Telegraph reported the two men were missing during combat in the village of Izbitskoe last Thursday, where they were later apprehended. The neighborhood is only ten kilometers from the Russian border.
Report of the Capture
The story is from the account of another foreign militant who is the same unit as the Ukrainian army. An unidentified militant said they were not mercenaries to let the public know their situation.
Other outlets were contacted by the individual, including CNN, to avoid getting sentenced to execution if anyone else is caught as a prisoner of war, mentioned First Faq.
Drueke, a 39-year-old from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, joined the US Army right after 9/11 with staff sergeant rank in Iran. His mother revealed to the Telegraph the veteran has PTSD.
While Huynh, 27, from Hartselle in Alabama, did a four-year tour of duty in the Marines despite lacking combat experience when recruited to fight for Ukraine, he is engaged in March and went to Europe to join up.
Recently the Donetsk People's Republic, a Russian ally, sentenced two Britons and one Moroccan to surrendering in the battle for Mariupol. DPR court deemed them mercenaries with no privileges of regular prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, and the western powers were angry at the decision.
The capture of two American prisoners of the war serving in Kyiv's forces will affect the Biden administration when talking to Russia, especially with Moscow's shortening patience with the US.
