‘He went there to volunteer’: Two Americans missing, feared captured in Ukraine

Two Americans, Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh and Alexander John-Robert Drueke, who were fighting alongside Ukrainian forces north of Kharkiv, have been missing since June 9, following a battle near the town of Izbytske. Huynh’s fiancé, Joy Black, and Drueke’s mother, Bunny Drueke, join CNN’s Anderson Cooper to talk about the efforts to find their loved ones. #CNN #News

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    1. @N Solo Take a minute and ask them what kind of man they’d like you to be, show them your posts here. See the disappointment in their eyes, and maybe you’ll learn.

  1. I’m sorry for what’s happening to them ladies but if they volunteered then they signed up for this, where is the symptomatic voice for the 13 Americans who died in Afghanistan

  2. I can’t even imagine what those women and their families are going through right now. My sympathies to both of you. Your loved ones are truly brave to go and fight on the front lines to help Ukraine.

  3. It’s a sad story but these two made the choices that got them where they are. Can’t say I would do anything different.

  4. On & off subject Yet;

    So let me get this straight. It takes between 21 to 35 days for a Russian oil tanker to get to US ports to be offloaded.

    It takes between 35 and 60 days for a tanker from the Middle East to make the same trek.

    It takes about 10 hours to load the tanker and up to 24 hours to unload. If it has to wait in port to get to an unloading dock, it can take up to 3 days.

    The average tanker burns 2,625 gallons of diesel fuel per hour. 22.38 pounds of CO2 are created from burning 1 gallon of diesel fuel.

    So, in one hour, a tanker ship hauling oil to a refinery in the US creates 58,757.5 pounds of CO2 per hour. Averaging the travel time of the tankers, that’s 27.67 million tons of CO2 per trip.

    In comparison, your car creates between 6 and 9 tons per year.

    Without going into all the equations of how many tankers come to the US per year, let alone our exports, will someone please explain to me how drilling our own oil and moving it through pipelines, along with importing oil from Canada via pipeline will not be more environmentally “green” for the world.

    Please explain to me why buying oil from another country is good for the environment??

    Or better yet how buying oil from another country is better than pumping our own oil??

    There’s nothing green about this other than these elites are lining their pockets with green.

    1. Oil is a commodity the price is set by the markets . No Russian oil in the markets mean higher prices .

    2. @Kristi Marie yes just think of the billions who will die in a famine when we ban the oil!

      You don’t mind though, so long as you feel better about charging your EV right?

    1. @Christopher It’s the US government who always poke their noses into other countries’ affairs, not the other way.

  5. Another heavy duty assault began around 6:30, to 7:33 . It sure doesn’t intimidate this criminals that they are commiting their crimes right in front of the school, and heavy duty cameras watching them. That is Questioning

  6. So leaving your family to go fight for people who don’t know you exist sounds irresponsible to me. Hope they make it back.

  7. Gee, who would have thought that when you go to a war zone, you could lose your life, who would have thought?

    1. I’m not sure why everyone in the comments is under the impression that these soldiers had no idea they could get captured. It’s a risk they chose to take. Do you see something indicating that they didn’t think this was a possibility? Your comment seems to be mocking them as if you’re under this impression.

  8. Pray for their safety!
    Hope their loved ones stay strong!
    For the past 100+ days, each day Putin lives, hundreds of people die. Cities bombarded to ruins. Millions of people lost their homes.
    What a horrible human being. What an awful way to spend the rest of his sorry life on earth.

    1. @Affluent Black Supremacist They are not mercenaries. They used their own money to go to Ukraine and fight for freedom. They are volunteers and not mercenaries. Russia is the one using mercenaries.

  9. I am very sorry for their families, but either they thought they’re Rambos or could be that they were there undercover on a mission one would think they knew exactly what they’re signing up for, if they were there on a mission and their families don’t know about it, I can’t imagine what they’re going through, but at the same time I hope they stay strong. Other than that it just doesn’t make sense to leave your families, travel thousands of miles to fight a country that hasn’t attacked your country in the name of defending America. Their responsibility is in America supporting and taking care of their own families.

  10. Two British men, one I believe is married to a Ukraine and living there, have been classed as mercenaries and sentenced to death.

  11. That requires a lot of finance to just pack up and leave. They are leaving behind them their electricity bills, their telephone bills and if they are renting a property, their rented property. They then pay to get to the Ukraine, and then financially support themselves food wise a roof over their head and personal hygiene, until they receive money and food from the Ukraine military. So how do they manage to do that? are they recruited by the Ukraine in the United States? or are they secretly financed by the U.S. government?

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