NEW YORK — Two U.S. navy veterans who disappeared three months in the past whereas combating Russia with Ukrainian forces arrived Friday at New York’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport after their launch by Russian-backed separatists as a part of a prisoner change.
“We’re trying ahead to spending time with household and we’ll be in contact with the media quickly,” Alex Drueke mentioned after arriving on the airport with Andy Huynh at round midday. “Completely happy to be residence.”
Drueke, 40, and Huynh, 27, went lacking within the Kharkiv area of northeastern Ukraine close to the Russian border on June 9. That they had traveled to Ukraine on their very own and bonded over their shared residence state.
Their households introduced their launch Wednesday in a joint assertion from Dianna Shaw, an aunt of Drueke.
Saudi Arabia brokered the change that granted their launch. The Saudi embassy launched an announcement Wednesday saying it helped safe the discharge of 10 prisoners from Morocco, the USA, the UK, Sweden and Croatia. Shaw confirmed that Drueke and Huynh had been a part of the group.
Drueke and Huynh flew to New York from Saudi Arabia. Shaw mentioned in an e mail that Druke’s mom and Huynh’s fiancé would fly to New York to satisfy the boys later Friday and that each one 4 would then journey to Alabama on Saturday.
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