Two U.S. veterans were said to be among at least 10 prisoners of war transferred to Saudi Arabia through a prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday.
The two veterans, both from Alabama, volunteered to fight with Ukraine's military but were captured in"We are thrilled to announce that Alex and Andy are free," Dianna Brown Shaw, an aunt of Drueke, said Wednesday in a statement posted on social media.
"They are safely in the custody of the US embassy in Saudi Arabia and after medical checks and debriefing they will return to the States," Brown Shaw added in her statement.What they're saying:, which included prisoners from the United Kingdom, Morocco, Sweden, and Croatia. It did not say what the self-proclaimed DPR or the Luhansk People's Republic or Russia received from the exchange.that five British nationals were released through the exchange, "ending months of uncertainty and suffering for them and their families."
"I thank [Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky] for his efforts to secure the release of detainees, and Saudi Arabia for their assistance," Truss added.against three foreign volunteers — two British men and one Moroccan man — in June. Aiden Aslin, one of the British nationals sentenced to death by the DPR, was included in the exchange Wednesday,
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