{O/C} And two more American military veterans from Alabama are feared missing amid the persisting savagery in Ukraine.
We'll also hear from their families as the U.S. State Department investigates the reports.
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39-year-old Alex Drueke from Alabama, a former U.S. army sergeant who served two stints in Iraq, as well as 27-year-old Andy Huynh, are both believed to have been captured.
This, after their group came under severe shelling in the eastern region of Kharkiv near the Russian border.
That sparked misgivings about whether they'll ever get to reunite with their family members.
Such mishap is par for the course to Drueke's aunt, and Huynh's fiancee received a disconcerting call from a friend of Huynh's in Ukraine on Monday saying both men might have been taken captive last Thursday.
{Soundbite}
JOY BLACK, Andy Huynh's Fiancee:
He told me how, during an operation, they got separated, and that Andy and Alex did not make their rendezvous point.
{VO}
Then it was Drueke's mother's turn to recount reading what could be her son's last words on June 8th.
{Soundbite}
LOIS DRUEKE, Mother of Alex Drueke:
I wrote that, "Stay safe, and I love you". And he wrote back, I'm sorry, he wrote back, "I love you too." And that's the last I heard from him.
{VO}
Be that as it may, even the State Department wasn't certain of their status, albeit pointing out a third American might be missing as well.
{Soundbite}
NED PRICE, U.S. State Department:
We don't have independent confirmation of their whereabouts.
{VO}
If the reports are to be confirmed, it'll be the first time Americans are captured defending Ukraine's sovereignty.
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Meantime, Russia still had the temerity to reduce more buildings to rubble in Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine, killing 4 and wounding 7 others.
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