Two Americans who fought for Ukraine before being captured by Russia will not be granted the protections afforded to prisoners of war by the Geneva Conventions, the Kremlin’s top spokesman said Monday.
The Geneva Conventions protect prisoners of war from torture, summary execution and prosecution for fighting in a war. But Peskov said the Americans “are not the Ukrainian army” and “are not subject to the Geneva Conventions.”
Responding to Peskov, the State Department said in a statement: “We call on the Russian government — as well as its proxies — to live up to their international obligations in their treatment of any individual, including those captured fighting in Ukraine.”Peskov accused Drueke, 39, and Huynh, 27 — both U.S. military veterans from Alabama — of being “soldiers of fortune,” or mercenaries, and said that Russian or Russia-aligned authorities will investigate their cases.
“Those guys on the battlefield were firing at our military guys. They were endangering their lives,” Peskov said. “There will be a court, and there will be a court decision.”
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