Lois Drueke told NBC News that she last communicated with son Alexander Drueke, 39, last Wednesday.
feared captured fighting for Ukraine has tearfully recalled her son warning her he was “going dark” — days before a colleague told her he went missing on a mission “gone bad.”that she last communicated with son Alexander Drueke, 39, last Wednesday — the same day fellow Alabama vet Andy Huynh, 27, was also last heard from.
The panicked mom said she was then contacted Monday with an alarming message from a fellow US veteran who had been with her son in a village outside Kharkiv.“He said that there had been a mission and that it had gone bad,” she recalled to NBC. White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said that if the reports are true, the US “will do everything we can” to get them back.
Pip — who refused to identify himself — also shared with her an “intercepted Russian communique that talked about having captured two Americans near the area where Alex and Andy went missing,” Duerke’s mom said.
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