'We just wanted it to end.' Two American veterans, taken prisoner while fighting for Ukraine, said Russian captors tortured them to the point where they 'prayed for death.'
Even after their release had been secured through back channel Saudi Arabian negotiators, their most harrowing moments came at the end of captivity, the former prisoners said.
"I think I'd go back in a slightly different capacity," Drueke said."I would go back for rebuilding after the war."The two American fighters, who are both from Alabama but didn't know each other until meeting in Ukraine, said they were captured after an eight-hour race through the woods.As soon as they were captured, their hands were tied behind their backs and heads covered with bags, the former prisoners recounted.
Drueke recalled the countless times he heard Huynh agonizing in pain as he was being tortured by Russians."My mission was to keep Andy alive and Andy's mission was to keep me alive," said Drueke, who suffered four broken ribs due to Russian torture.
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