NEW: Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh and Alexander Drueke, both veterans from Alabama, were reported missing by their families following a fight in the Kharkiv area in June. They're now in the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, according to a statement from their families.
The two men are now in the U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia, according to a joint statement from their families, the network reported.
Huynh, 27, of Lawrence County, left the U.S. in early April to fight with Ukrainian forces. The son of Vietnamese immigrants, he had served as a U.S. Marine for four years and, before his departure, was a student at Calhoun Community College. Drueke, a 39-year old from Tuscaloosa, is an Iraq War veteran who told his family he had been teaching Ukrainian troops how to use American-made weapons.was expected to receive a medical screening later in the day.
The Saudi government said the release came as part of a mediation effort involving ten prisoners of war- including Moroccan, British, Swedish and Croatian nationals.
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