• Joy Black, Andy’s fiancée, said over the phone, “At this moment, what we officially know from the State Department is that Andy and Alex are gone.
• The last time their families heard from Andy Huynh, 27, of Hartselle, Alabama,
• In the battle that started on February 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of its neighbor

According to family members, two Americans who went to Ukraine to fight for Russia as volunteers have been missing for a week and are presumed to have been arrested.

The last time their families heard from Andy Huynh, 27, of Hartselle, Alabama, and Alexander Drueke, 39, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was on June 8, neither of whom returned from a mission in the Kharkiv region of eastern Ukraine.

According to the families and a representative for the U.S. State Department, reports that Russia has captured the two men as prisoners of war are unverified.

Joy Black, Andy’s fiancée, said over the phone, “At this moment, what we officially know from the State Department is that Andy and Alex are gone.

“Beyond that, we don’t have any other confirmation. Naturally, as the search continues, we begin to examine more possibilities “Added she. An inquiry for comment was not immediately answered by the Russian defence ministry.

In the battle that started on February 24 when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of its neighbour, if the two have been taken captive, they would be the first American citizens to have been seized as prisoners of war with certainty.

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