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What caused the veterans of Drueke, Huynh to leave?
- Russian state television on Friday showed a video of two American veterans, confirming they were arrested in Ukraine.
- Andy Huynh, 27, and Alex Drueke, 39, went missing last week during a battle near Kharkiv.
- In the video, Drueke, speaking to the camera from what appears to be an office, sends a message to his mother.
Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh knows he probably won’t come back. So the 27-year-old ex-Marine made a will, said goodbye to his fiancée and left Hartselle, Alabama, in April to help the Ukrainians repel Russian forces.
That same month, not far from Tuscaloosa, a former Army Sergeant. Alexander Drueke, a 39-year-old Iraq war veteran, weighed in for a month before deciding to leave for Ukraine.