A video of Alexander Drueke expressing his love for his mother has not yet been validated by the state department
Lois Drueke, shown here with her son, missing US military veteran Alexander Drueke, said the video distributed by Russian state media of her son gives her ‘great hope’.Lois Drueke, shown here with her son, missing US military veteran Alexander Drueke, said the video distributed by Russian state media of her son gives her ‘great hope’.Last modified on Sat 18 Jun 2022 01.
The brief video clip in question began circulating after Joe Biden told reporters that he had been briefed on the disappearances in Ukraine of Drueke, his fellow military veteran and Alabama resident Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, and Grady Kurpasi, who apparently“We don’t know where they are,” the president said to reporters. “But I want to reiterate: Americans should not be going to Ukraine now.”
Huynh, 27, said he and Drueke were part of a unit with a large number of French nationals that became locked in a gun battle with Russian troops. Another clip also shows Huynh saying, “I am against war,” in Russian, according to multiple media outlets., which was first to report that Drueke and Huynh had gone missing, cited an account from an unnamed fellow fighter who said the pair were taken prisoner after a battle with Russian forces north-east of Kharkiv on 9 June.
Drueke served two combat tours with the US army in Iraq and was teaching Ukraine’s troops how to use American-made weapons. Huynh and Kurpasi each previously spent time with the US marines.
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