{"id":1525863,"date":"2022-06-22T13:19:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525863"},"modified":"2022-06-22T13:56:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T17:56:15","slug":"russia-might-execute-two-american-veterans-captured-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-might-execute-two-american-veterans-captured-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Might Execute Two American Veterans Captured In Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-might-execute-two-american-veterans-captured-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525863&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two American\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/military\">military<\/a> veterans from <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/alabama\">Alabama<\/a> captured earlier this month by pro-<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\">Russia<\/a> forces in<a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/russia\"> Ukraine<\/a> could be executed.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh \u2014 who respectively served in the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/u-s-army\">Army<\/a> and the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/marines\">Marines<\/a> \u2014 were fighting on behalf of Ukraine on June 9 when they were separated from their group. The pair were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/russian-state-media-releases-video-of-two-alabama-veterans-captured-in-ukraine\">subsequently captured<\/a> by a Russian patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that the soldiers had been captured and said that because they were not official military personnel, they were not subject to protection under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/instruments-mechanisms\/instruments\/geneva-convention-relative-treatment-prisoners-war#:~:text=Prisoners%20of%20war%20must%20at,breach%20of%20the%20present%20Convention.\">Geneva Convention.<\/a> It states that imprisoned soldiers cannot be subjected to physical mutilation or other inhumane treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey should be held responsible for those crimes they have committed. Those crimes have to be investigated,\u201d Peskov told MSNBC, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/kremlin-says-american-basketball-player-griner-broke-law-faces-prosecution-ria-2022-06-20\/\">Reuters<\/a>. \u201cThe only thing that is clear is that they have committed crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>John Kirby, the coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, said that the United States is \u201ctrying to learn more about these two individuals,\u201d yet denounced the Russian official\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s appalling that a public official in Russia would even suggest the death penalty for two American citizens that were in Ukraine,\u201d Kirby said, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/21\/politics\/white-house-americans-russia\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cAnd we\u2019re going to continue to try and learn what we can about this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirby expressed concern about Peskov\u2019s comments, regardless of the eventual fate of the two men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s equally alarming, whether they actually mean what they\u2019re saying here and this could be an outcome, that they could levy a death penalty against two Americans in Ukraine,\u201d Kirby continued. \u201cOr that they just feel it\u2019s a responsible thing for a major power to do, to talk about doing this as a way of signaling to the President of the United States and the American people. Either one of them is equally alarming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RT, a Russian state-funded media outlet, posted <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/s\/corrkosarev\/703\">videos<\/a> of Drueke and Huynh earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMom, I just want to let you know that I\u2019m alive and I hope to be back home as soon as I can be,\u201d Drueke said in one video. \u201cSo, love Diesel for me. Love you,\u201d he said in reference to his dog.<\/p>\n<p>Based upon his use of a keyword and a gesture established before his service in Iraq, Drueke\u2019s mother could confirm that he was okay. \u201cUnmistakably under duress, but thank God they\u2019re alive,\u201d Bunny Drueke told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/missing-americans-ukraine-russia-alexander-drueke-andy-huynh-russia-video\/\">CBS News<\/a>. \u201cI was just relieved he looks not like he\u2019s been beaten or mistreated. That was really encouraging to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Huynh\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, Joy Black, told the outlet, \u201cThey missed their rendezvous point and that had been a few days prior. They\u2019ve gone and searched, they didn\u2019t find anything. And later I found out they\u2019d done drone searches and still found nothing, no traces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A State Department spokesperson told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/06\/20\/world\/americans-missing-ukraine-donetsk-intl-hnk\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> last week that they \u201chave seen the photos and videos of these two US citizens reportedly captured by Russia\u2019s military forces in Ukraine\u201d and were \u201cclosely monitoring the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in contact with Ukrainian authorities, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and with the families themselves,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cDue to privacy considerations, we have no further comment on these cases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two American\u00a0military veterans from Alabama captured earlier this month by pro-Russia forces in Ukraine could be executed. Alex Drueke and Andy Huynh \u2014 who respectively served in the U.S. Army and the U.S. Marines \u2014 were fighting on behalf of Ukraine on June 9 when they were separated from their group. The pair were subsequently &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1524659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}