President Biden says the U.S. doesn't know the whereabouts of three Americans believed to have gone missing in Ukraine. 'I want to reiterate, Americans should not be going to Ukraine now.'
have been reported missing by their families, and the State Department said Thursday that there were reports of a third American citizen possibly missing while fighting in the country.
Alabama residents Alex Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh have not been heard from since last week, their families said Wednesday, and relatives said they are worried about what may have happened to them.U.S. officials have been in touch with the Ukrainian government as well as other nongovernmental organizations in the region as they monitor the situation, State Department spokesman Ned Price said. There has been no intelligence that the missing Americans are in Russian custody, Price noted.
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