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Two veterans Alexander Drueke and Andy Huynh captured in Ukraine become first Russian prisoners of war from US

Updated: 12:46 ET, Jun 15 2022

TWO American veterans have been captured in Ukraine, becoming the first Russian prisoners of war from the US, reports say.
Alexander Drueke, 39, and Andy Huynh, 27, were reportedly seized by Russian troops just outside the northeast city of Kharkiv last week, according to The Telegraph.


US vet Robert Drueke was one of two US service members taken prisoner by Russian forcesCredit: Facebook



Andy Huynh, 39, was also captured by Russian troopsCredit: Handout

The two service members reportedly volunteered with a Ukrainian army unit before their capture.
A comrade of the men, who asked not to be named, told The Telegraph that they had been captured after running into a large Russian force during a battle on June 9.
"We were out on a mission and the whole thing went absolutely crazy, with bad intel," he told the outlet.
"We were told the town was clear when it turned out the Russians were already assaulting it.
"They came down the road with two T72 tanks and multiple BMP3s and about 100 infantry. The only thing that was there was our 10-man squad."
The comrade told the outlet that the squad had set up defense positions, during which Drueke and Huynh fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a Russian vehicle, destroying it.
However, the move drew the attention of a Russian tank that opened fire in their direction.
Moments later, the tank was disabled by an anti-tank mine, but the American vets vanished in the fog of battle as fears mounted about their capture.
The comrade told the outlet that the squadron launched a rescue mission in search of the Americans, sending drones in the sky and search teams on the ground - but came up empty.
He said his suspicions were confirmed later that night when a message appeared on a Russian Telegram channel claiming that two American servicemen had been taken PoW near Kharkiv.
"It is too much of a coincidence for that to have happened otherwise – we are the only Americans fighting in this area," the man told The Telegraph.

US VETS 'GONE MISSING'

Drueke - a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama - previously served with the US Army in Iraq.
The vet's mother, Lois, 68, told the outlet that he struggled to hold a steady job after returning from overseas - claiming her son suffered from PTSD.
Huynh, a California native, lived in Alabama's Tennessee Valley area and previously served in the US Marines.
His partner, Joy Black, said she had received a call from Huynh's comrades on Monday saying he had gone missing.
"I was told they had not made their rendezvous point,” she told the outlet, adding that some drone searches “found no trace” of him.
Black said the idea of volunteering had been on Huynh's mind ever since the first day of the Russian invasion on February 24.
"He said to me: 'They are attacking with 60 battalions, do you know how much that is?'
“At first, I didn't really take him seriously, but he was reading all these stories about young Ukrainian men having to fight as soon they turned 18, and he felt he should try to help," she said.

"I tried to persuade him not to go, but I think his mind was made up. I could see how it was gnawing at him. Eventually, he apologized to me and said he really had to go.

“He didn't tell me anything about the operation he was on last week, as he didn't want to scare me. I just want to have him back safely."

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"G3" ngồi xe lửa Ba Lan sang xông đất Kyjiv, không biết mang đến nỗi buồn, hay niềm vui cho Zelenzkyj.
Nỗi buồn là không có súng và hiệp ước Minsk tập 3. Còn nếu là niềm vui thì chỉ có thể là vũ khí và Euro.

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The leaders of France, Germany and Italy have arrived in Kyiv for talks, after taking a night train from Poland



The visit of the leaders of Germany, France and Italy to Kyiv is a show of solidarity but also about a commitment to carry on supporting and helping Ukraine and its citizens, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says.
Speaking to German newspaper Bild on his way to Kyiv, Scholz said: "We don't just want to demonstrate solidarity, we also want to make it clear that we will continue with the help we're organising – financial and humanitarian, but also when it comes to weapons."
The support will go on for as long "as is necessary for Ukraine's struggle for independence", Scholz says.
The situation Ukraine is in is "very unusual", Scholz says.
He also makes clear sanctions are of great importance, saying: "They contribute to the chance that Russia will give up its operation and withdraw its troops again. Because that's the goal."

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Quá nóng ...

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Tôi bỗng thấy đầu lâng lâng vì nắng Paris sao quá nực nội…
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Thiện căn ở tại lòng ta,
Chữ "đô" (la) kia mới bằng ba chữ đồ.

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Russian Nobel-Prize Editor Auctions Medal to Aid Ukrainians



The Russian editor awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for championing freedom of speech is auctioning his medal to raise funds for Ukrainians who’ve been made into refugees by President Vladimir Putin’s war.

Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, was awarded the Nobel together with the journalist Maria Ressa of the Philippines last year for their “courageous fight for freedom of expression.” He donated his approximately $500,000 prize money to charity, and suspended publication of the newspaper in March after Russia passed legislation restricting reporting on the war, or what the Kremlin calls its “special military operation.”

The sale of his Nobel medal “has to become the beginning of a flash mob, an example to follow, so people auction their valuable possessions to help Ukrainian refugees,” Muratov said in a video released by the New York auction house, Heritage Auctions, which is organizing the event.

Bidding, which concludes at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Monday, has already reached $550,000 and proceeds will benefit relief organization UNICEF’s response to aid Ukrainian children displaced by the war, according to its website.

Staff at Novaya Gazeta fully supported the decision as did the Nobel Committee, Muratov said. He co-founded the investigative newspaper in 1993 with backing from former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Four of its journalists as well as a lawyer and rights activist who worked with them on investigations have been killed over the years.

In April, Muratov said an assailant attacked him by throwing red paint over him while on a train from Moscow.

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Làng thủy khan: Vì hạn hán thiếu nước, trong khi chờ tìm nguồn nước mới, một làng Phú Lang Sa
"cấm hứng nước nấu ăn, uống và đánh răng". Mỗi ngày ra nhà việc được cho 2 chai nước mang về.
Hm, 2 chai nước là khỏi tắm rửa gì cả. Chỉ cầm chừng sống qua ngày cho đến khi nhà chức trách kiểm xong
chất lượng nguồn nước mới.

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l’eau du robinet rationnée dans un village des Alpes-Maritimes



En raison de la sécheresse et de la faiblesse de la source qui alimente le village, la mairie de Villars-sur-Var a décidé de rationner l’eau des habitants
Villars-sur-Var, commune de 760 habitants située dans les Alpes-Maritimes, a coupé l’eau du robinet en raison de la faiblesse de la source qui l’alimente dans un contexte de sécheresse dans le département.

Le maire a pris vendredi un arrêté qui interdit « la consommation humaine d’eau potable, à savoir la boisson, la préparation des aliments et le lavage des dents », ont indiqué les services de la mairie, confirmant une information de « Nice Matin ». Même si la source montagneuse qui alimente le village n’est pas totalement tarie, le maire a pris cet arrêté pour éviter que la commune « ne se retrouve à sec ».

Un nouveau captage, près de la source initiale, a été réalisé par la régie des eaux Alpes Azur Mercantour. Mais si le débit est suffisant, les résultats d’analyse de l’eau ne sont pas encore parvenus à la commune qui ne peut donc pas en autoriser la consommation pour le moment.

En attendant, la mairie procède à des distributions d’eau, à raison de deux bouteilles par habitant et par jour « ou d’un pack par famille et par jour ». Conformément à un arrêté préfectoral, la mairie a également pris un second arrêté municipal qui interdit l’arrosage des pelouses ou de remplir les piscines.

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Russian Nobel-Prize Editor Auctions Medal to Aid Ukrainians

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Của một đồng lòng một nén.
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German gas prices could triple as Russia reduces supply
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ly-expert-says

Müller said Germany could go for just over two months without Russian gas supplies. “If the storage facilities in Germany were mathematically 100% full … we could do without Russian gas completely … for just about two-and-a-half months and then the storage tanks will be empty,” he told the Maybrit Illner programme on Thursday evening.

To prepare for the supply crunch, Germany needed to save gas and rapidly diversify its suppliers, he said. “Most of the scenarios are not pretty and mean either too little gas by the end of the winter, or even – and that’s a very tricky situation – in the autumn or winter.”

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Hết ga:

German gas prices could triple as Russia reduces supply
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ly-expert-says



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Đát shịt: có cấm là có cung cấp

Concerns grow that India is ‘back door’ into Europe for Russian oil
https://www.theguardian.com/business...or-russian-oil

The Asian nation’s willingness to snap up Russian crude at discounts of up to 30% has undermined efforts from the US, Europe and the UK to deplete. Now, concerns are growing that India is being used as a potential back door into Europe for Russian oil supplies,given the surge in imports.

Industry sources said tracking shipments of Russian oil to Europe via India is proving very difficult. “You’ll find that several shipments of crude will arrive at a port from different countries and be blended together. Tracking a hydrocarbon is basically impossible.”

Oleg Ustenko, the chief economic adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is more forthright. He told the Guardian: “We call on countries everywhere to show solidarity with Ukraine by rejecting Russia’s blood oil. But let’s be clear, the British and EU energy, shipping and insurance companies who are helping Putin complete this pivot to new markets out of pure greed are complicit in his war crimes.”

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