'We prayed for death. We just wanted to die. We just wanted it to end.' Two Americans captured by Russians in Ukraine tell ABC News what was going through their heads as they were forced to endure a month inside a black site detention center.
6:10over the summer and later held in a "black site" for a month, where the two Alabama men said they endured daily torture and lived on spoiled bread and dirty water, they expected death at any moment.
"I did not go over there to fight specifically. But I understood that that was a very real possibility," Drueke said. What he and Huynh shared, he said, was concern that the Russian invasion of Ukraine would be successful and then spread across Europe. "It felt wrong just to sit back and do nothing," he said. For the following month, the invasion "kept gnawing" at him until he was losing sleep. "I didn't want to do nothing. The situation in Ukraine was all I could really think about."
"It was very unfortunate how it played out, but just everything went wrong," and the two men found themselves facing a battalion where a firefight broke out, he said. They evaded capture for eight hours after running through thick woods where they dodged active drones and land mines they said. Eventually, they said they were surrounded, ordered to their knees, their hands bound, and bags thrust over their heads.
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