Shaw, 55, stated the U.S. State Division informed her household that “each single avenue of communication is being employed” to succeed in the Russians in an try to barter their launch.
State Division spokesman Ned Worth stated this week officers had been in contact with authorities in Ukraine and Russia however weren’t offered particulars in regards to the males’s whereabouts. One other spokesperson declined to remark additional when reached by USA TODAY.
The Russian army has stated it considers foreigners combating with Ukraine to be mercenaries not protected as combatants beneath the Geneva Conventions.