Kharkiv, 2 Americans prisoners of the Russians: US checks

The US State Department is working to find confirmation on the veracity of the photo released yesterday on Telegram by a Russian blogger, Timofey Vasilyev, as evidence of the capture by Russian forces north of Kharkiv last week of two American fighters. This was declared to CNN by the mother of one of the two, Bunny Druecke. In the disclosed image, the two are in the back of a Russian military truck: they are Alexander John-Robert Drueke, 39, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, 27, of Hartselle, Alabama. The photo shows the two men looking at the camera, their hands behind their backs. “They said there is a photograph circulating in the Russian media. And they are working hard to verify it, “said Bunny Drueke.” We are very confident. “