On Friday, Russian news outlet RT broadcast messages from Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh, two U.S. military veterans from Alabama who traveled to Ukraine to help defend the country against Russia’s invasion and went missing last week. “Mom, I just want to let you know that I’m alive and I hope to be back home as soon as I can be,” Drueke said. According to RT, the two are being held by Russian-backed separatist forces. A third American veteran, Grady Kurpasi, is also reportedly missing in action in Ukraine. “We don’t know where they are, but I want to reiterate: Americans should not be going to Ukraine now,” President Biden said Friday.
