“I have been informed.
We don't know where they are.
I want to emphasize again that Americans should not go to Ukraine now, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
According to the British newspaper The Telegraph, two former US military personnel who took part in the hostilities in Ukraine were captured near Kharkov.
According to available information, we are talking about 39-year-old Alexander Dryuk and 27-year-old Andy Hune, who "served as volunteers."
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, earlier on the Soloviev LIVE aired, said that the United States had not yet contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry on this issue.
The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, noted that foreign mercenaries, in accordance with international humanitarian law, are not combatants.
In this regard, they cannot claim the status of a prisoner of war.